Unintended Acceleration

[Robert Myers]

I dunno, Greg.  That UA flap made a lot of nice Audis inexpensively 
available for some of us long time list members.  :-)

At 07:54 AM 3/10/2004 -0800, Greg Johnson wrote:

>Q-Fans,
>
>Somewhere, in a box, are many of the articles from the UA time.  The DOT 
>did a major investigation and report and said the UA problem arose from 
>"pedal missapplication."  One of the most telling pieces of evidence was 
>set forth in a Car & Driver article which established that a 5000's brakes 
>are stronger than it's engine and if you apply the gas and the brakes when 
>the car is stopped, the car will not move until you release the 
>brakes.  Moreover, if you apply the gas and the brakes while the car is 
>travelling, the brakes will overcome the engine and stop the car.
>Road & Track did a big article as well.  All of the evidence came down on 
>Audi's side.  In sum, UA simply could not happen in the way that  60 
>Minutes said it had.  To this day, I wish Audi had taken CBS to court.
>
>In this day and time 60 Min never would have gotten away with its BS.
>C&D, R&T have their own TV programs and then there's the internet and 
>everyone with a brain would have cried "foul" and CBS would have had to 
>back pedal.   Back in "the old days," 60 Min had the only real TV access; 
>there was no I-net; and it took months for the auto press and government 
>to respond, and by that time the damage was already done.
>BTW, since that time, I've watch 60 Mins but once, when a friend happened 
>to be on it.
>
>Historically,
>
>Greg J
>BIRA.ORG
>
>Brendan wrote:
>
>>yup that was it, i did some looking around the web today for curiosities 
>>sake(google audi unintended acceleration). couldn't find the specific 
>>article i read, but everything you said jives with what i found.I also 
>>found it interesting some released court documents for Illinois 
>>(Ithink)came up. People were still in court with VAG in 1998 apparently. 
>>i scanned through, and to my shock and suprise the case was dismissed due 
>>to insuffucient evidence of direct negligence on audi's part... 
>>apparently this case was filed after the AT lockout was added,the car in 
>>question was produced with it factory installed, leaving only (insert 
>>score for dramatic effect) driver error!!! I was only a kid at the time(4 
>>or 5) but i remember my parents freinds selling there car because of the 
>>whole mess, I think it was actually a 4k, but it amazes me the panic that 
>>runs through the masses. 1800 questionable cases out of how many cars 
>>produced? numbers of unintended acceleration that were not statstically 
>>higher than the case with z cars etc? THat's why you can't believe 
>>everthing you read...
>>brendan
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