Video: Smoking Gun? ABC News expert recreates sudden acceleration without CPU error code
 

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Earlier today, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/02/22/abc-news-expert-says-electronic-design-flaw-to-blame-in-runaway/"><em>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.<br />
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David Gilbert, an automotive technology professor at Souther Illinois University and <em>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.<br />
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Although the report goes into specifics, seeing is believing, and <em>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 <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/02/22/video-smoking-gun-abc-news-expert-recreates-sudden-acceleratio/">after the jump</a>.<br />
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