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.