[SystemSafety] Yet another supposedly-runaway car

Peter Bernard Ladkin ladkin at rvs.uni-bielefeld.de
Thu Mar 7 11:25:26 CET 2013


Here we are again.

 From today's Risks Forum Digest 27.18:

> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:03:59 PST
> From: "Peter G. Neumann" <neumann at csl.sri.com>
> Subject: Hyundai controller failure?
>
> ... allegedly causes high speed chase/crash:
>
> http://www.autoblog.com/2013/02/22/hyundai-elantras-alleged-unintended-acceleration-sends-teen-po/#continued
>

It is hard for me to believe that these things continue happening and are unresolved. So what and 
where are the resolutions? They can't all be due to Toyota car mats getting stuck.

Are they due, perhaps, to people becoming "frozen" (a phenomenon well-known to flight instructors) 
and not being able to apply brakes or turn off engines?

And why is it happening now, and not (say) twenty years ago?

PBL

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