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Aside from the Toyota cases that is which helped prove Toyota was not at fault for "unintended acceleration"



Sorry, couldn't let this slide. For being "not at fault", Toyota sure paid one heck of large fine for not doing due diligence. The myth of the superior Toyota needs to be drowned in a bucket.



ahem- http://www.nhtsa.gov/UA

Its called a shakedown. Toyota paid money to make bad press go away.

I never stated Toyota was superior, thanks for putting words in my mouth. I'd wager that in the majority of cases driver error is the problem.

Just like this poor schmuck who let his Hellcat get away from him.



Yep, the Toyota deal was nothing more than a shakedown by greedy lawyers. Bad thing is that the gov piled on for some reason. Most likely due to campaign contributions from said greedy lawyers. The Audi deal was the same thing years ago. Same deal with "exploding gas tanks" and other such nonsense. I went to law school with some of the scum who perpetuate this mess.

Back to the topic on hand. If I was a Hellcat engineer I'd love to see the black box data. Just be interesting to see if the stabilty control was turned off or not. If it was on I'd like to crunch the numbers to see what if anything could've been solved. Maybe the dude was just going too fast for anything to save him but I don't know. The 4 wheel slide job tells me that he could've been saved by a computer who knew more about driving than the driver.