Posted on 03/19/2010 5:35:12 AM PDT by mattstat
Just look at these headlines!
* “Inquiry on Auto Acceleration Expanded by U .S.,” New York Times * “Cars That Speed Up Mysteriously Spark Bitter Dispute Over Cause,” Wall Street Journal * “Runaway Cars,” Detroit News
And how about these?
* “Car Plows into Park, Killing 3 & Injuring Dozens,” New York Times * “Car Kills Woman At Market,” Post-Standard * “Sudden Acceleration May Be the Cause of Recent Accidents…,” Corporate Crime Reporter
Boy, doesn’t Toyota have problems?
Maybe not. That first set of headlines was from an earlier “epidemic” of sudden accelerations thought to be caused by Ford automobiles. The second set was blamed on Audi.
These sudden — then called “unintended” — accelerations happened in the mid-1980s to early 1990s. They were so popular that CBS’s 60 Minutes, in a now infamous segment, “televised a sensational demonstration in which a rigged Audi 5000 was coaxed into accelerating without any hint of pressure on the gas pedal.” They later had to issue a “correction.”
Complaints of unintended acceleration to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) were not unusual and were associated with cars of almost every make and model. But after the media reported a cluster of accidents involving first Fords, then Audis, more complaints about those cars were subsequently received...
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Humans are known to be susceptible to mass hysteria. House even used it in one of their shows, having a majority of people on a plane actually develop symptoms of a disease that none of them had, simply because they were told they had it.
Whenever a car has been accused of acceleration, the reports of that car have gone way up; usually it only stops when the goverment makes a public pronouncement that the problem wasn’t real, or that the company has fixed it.
Sometimes in my opinion the company will fix SOMETHING, ANYTHING, like a placebo, so the goverment announcement will make sense and people will stop believing a lie.
In this case, the government is promoting the fear. Who knows where it will end. This government knows how to play on the fears of the people, and is using mass hysteria as a political tool, destroying our country in the process.
There are reports every year for every make of car claiming sudden acceleration. Thank the brainless mainstream media for turning it into a frenzy of copycat problems. And, the Gov't owns GM and a big chunk of Chrysler so they grandstand and pile-on, too.
Look what is happening to Honda and Hyundai (sp?) right now.
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