Scientists Still Probing Unintended Acceleration Causes

Hey scientists, talk to the guys who did the Audi "unintended acceleration" research, and see what they learned. It might be useful second time around.

Just an honest question, spies: When did this "unintended acceleration" thing begin with Toyota? I recall from possibly faulty memory, that it's been well over a year. During that time:
(1) As the story got more air play and the public became more aware
of the alleged issue, more occurrences happened.
(2) Toyota was shown to be aware of a few, rare allegations of
"unintended acceleration" long ago (long before it became a
popular issue), but did not fix the alleged problem.
(3) Toyota is accused of using questionable tactics to defend itself
against allegations of "unintended acceleration."
And the biggest point is...
(4) Nobody has proven that the alleged "unintended acceleration" is
a result of a defect in a Toyota vehicle. In a number of the
cases studied, "human error" was cited as the cause (i.e., driver
mashing the accelerator when they *thought* they were standing on
the brake pedal).

In *my* mind, Toyota is innocent until proven guilty, no matter how much public opinion and the media want them to be held accountable. This still plays out like "Audi Unintended Acceleration: Episode II" to me.

Or better yet, talk to NASA or the FAA.

When a plane goes down, the government is given full and complete access to ALL technical information including hardware designs and software code.

All the scientists (and the plaintiff's) are asking is for Toyota to make the same design information available to the Gov and to an independent lab to do a similar investigation.

No one can find the root cause without the design info and so far, Toyota is stonewalling. Why?