No $1M prize winners in contest to crack Toyota sudden acceleration syndrome
 

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Last year, Edmunds asked its readership to <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/03/03/edmunds-pledges-1-million-prize-for-unintended-acceleration-res/">recreate a mechanical or electrical cause of sudden unintended acceleration</a> of the kind that allegedly plagued Toyota in 2009 and 2010. <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/04/06/edmunds-announces-official-rules-for-1-million-sudden-accelerat/">The prize for coming up with verifiable proof of mechanical failure causing SUA was a cool $1 million dollars</a>. Perhaps unsurprisingly, that contest just concluded without a winner.<br />
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Over the course of the year, Edmunds readers were unable to come up with proof that a mechanical or electrical fault caused the accidents that led to Toyota's drastic recall. That backs up NASA's finding that absolved <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/make/toyota/">Toyota</a> of any wrongdoing. With mechanical failure ruled out as a viable cause of SUA, we're left with an uncomfortable thought: Short of those dealing with binding floor mats or those sticky recalled pedals, driver error was almost certainly the culprit for the flurry of unintended acceleration claims.</p><p style="padding:5px;backgr ound:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/05/27/no-1m-prize-winners-in-contest-to-crack-toyota-sudden-accelerat/">No $1M prize winners in contest to crack Toyota sudden acceleration syndrome</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.autoblog.com">Autoblo g</a> on Fri, 27 May 2011 14:02:00 EST. Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/05/27/no-1m-prize-winners-in-contest-to-crack-toyota-sudden-accelerat/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19951925/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/05/27/no-1m-prize-winners-in-contest-to-crack-toyota-sudden-accelerat/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>

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