Transportation Secretary LaHood Taps NASA To Investigate Acceleration Clitches

Transportation Secretary LaHood Taps NASA To Investigate Acceleration Clitches
The U.S. Transportation Department will launch two major investigations to discover whether vehicle electronics or electromagnetic interference are to blame for unintended vehicle acceleration incidents.

The investigations, one by the National Academy of Sciences and the other with the help of the NASA, will help get to the bottom of the issue, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in an interview with The Detroit News Monday.

The announcement follows congressional hearings in recent months into reports of hundreds of runaway Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles.


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monstermonster - 3/30/2010 10:55:06 AM
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Runaway car only occur when lawyers are involved. I have not heard any runaway car lately. Does that surprise you? There are no money to be made so the cars are not driving themselves now.


SpectatorSpectator - 3/30/2010 11:07:19 AM
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Well, NASA has to do somthing. Since their funding line for space exploration was obliterated, they might as well work on cars.


NannerPusNannerPus - 3/30/2010 12:44:16 PM
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Maybe the now that the big guns from NASA are on the job they can figure this out and stop the body count. Great move.




carguy68carguy68 - 3/30/2010 1:06:33 PM
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Toyota you made a crapy part! no need to get more people involved.


SteveSteve - 3/30/2010 1:14:22 PM
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Will it take NASA to tell us that "unintended acceleration" is synonymous with "pilot error"?


theman440theman440 - 3/30/2010 1:59:11 PM
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Why in the world is NASA getting involved in this? I don't like the idea of our National Space Orginization helping a foreign owned car company that is in direct competition with US automakers...


Agent009Agent009 - 3/30/2010 4:24:59 PM
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Pretty simple. Many sources are pointing to outside electronic interference as the culprit. The only resources that even test for such issues are within the aeronautical industry. NASA is probably the best source to debug computer code as well, you simply don't send objects millions of miles out in space with programming issues. If they can pass the acid test with NASA this should stop all of the speculation.


uaw_laxuaw_lax - 3/30/2010 7:26:50 PM
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Wait until they get our bill! LOL


Agent009Agent009 - 3/30/2010 4:33:22 PM
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Badgewhore- The rovers probably aren't the best choice to pick on. They were originally designed with a service life of only 6 months, and they have lasted about 6 years (12 times their design lifespan). Spirit it currently stuck in sand but still transmitting data. Opportunity is seems is traveling across the surface to another destination. Considering the environment they are in they are doing very well.

Last time I checked though neither one had a single episode of unintended acceleration.
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