{"id":351387,"date":"2010-02-22T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T01:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/22\/video-smoking-gun-abc-news-expert-recreates-sudden-acceleratio\/"},"modified":"2010-02-22T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T01:56:00","slug":"video-smoking-gun-abc-news-expert-recreates-sudden-acceleration-without-cpu-error-code-updated-wtoyota-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/351387","title":{"rendered":"Video: Smoking Gun? ABC News expert recreates sudden acceleration without CPU error code *UPDATED w\/Toyota response"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Click above to view the video after the jump<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n

\nEarlier today, ABC News<\/em> released a report<\/a> asserting that the cause of Toyota’s unintended accelerations issues might not be a faulty accelerator mechanism, but an electronic flaw in the automaker’s engine control unit – something that’s been suspected, although never confirmed, for some time.<\/p>\n

David Gilbert, an automotive technology professor at Southern Illinois University and ABC<\/em>‘s primary source for the report, claims to be able to duplicate the effect by short-circuiting one of the controls, which could be caused by moisture, wear or a combination of factors in Toyota vehicles.<\/p>\n

Although the report goes into specifics, seeing is believing, and ABC News<\/em> has done just that, putting Brian Ross behind the wheel as Gilbert trips the switch. The results are rather shocking – particularly since the ECU doesn’t record a fault. You can see it for yourself after the jump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: <\/em><\/strong>In response to the allegation that an electronic fault is the cause of the unintended acceleration issue, Toyota has released a statement saying that Gilbert talked with the automaker on the Feb. 16 after wiring a Toyota Tundra in a similar manner and causing the acceleration. Make the jump<\/a> for the release and draw your own conclusions.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Filed under: Recalls, Safety, Videos, Toyota Click above to view the video after the jump Earlier today, ABC News released a report asserting that the cause of Toyota’s unintended accelerations issues might not be a faulty accelerator mechanism, but an electronic flaw in the automaker’s engine control unit – something that’s been suspected, although never […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}