Expert recreates Toyota sudden acceleration

A new investigative report, complete with an automotive professor from a major college, claims to show proof of an inherent design flaw with Toyota’s electronics that can cause a vehicle to experience unintended sudden acceleration. The automotive professor went as far as to demonstrate the occurrence with the reporter driving and cameras rolling.

Brian Ross of ABC News has tracked down a college professor, Dave Gilbert, from Southern Illinois University, in order to investigate Gilbert’s claim that the electronics could possibly be to blame for the cases of sudden acceleration in modern Toyota vehicles. [Read more...]