Car Recalls and Defects
Discussions center on automotive safety issues, recalls, and malfunctions like unintended acceleration, with frequent comparisons to Toyota's 2009-2011 scandal, Ford Pinto, GM ignition switch, and other historical cases.
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While I am 99.9% certain you are correct, there is a chance it malfunctioned. What you are saying is exactly what people were saying when people first started claiming they couldn't stop their Toyotas from accelerating years ago, and then it turned out there was some merit to their claims.
That is still a big deal. See also the Toyota accelerator issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%932011_Toyota_vehic...
Something similar recently happened with Toyota actually.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667208
I don’t get why we have these here on HN all the time. Lots of cars have recalls https://www.caranddriver.com/recalls/
Reminds me of the Ford Pinto debacle https://www.engineering.com/Library/ArticlesPage/tabid/85/Ar...
You're making your (our) cause look bad. There are a lot of issues with cars but this isn't one of them. Cars essentially work as intended, and when they don't there are recalls, lawsuits, and NHTSA investigations.
This happened with that whole GM ignition switch thingEdited to add this link https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/busi...
Toyota had a similar issue some years ago for which they paid out billions, although the real cause is disputed: https://www.manufacturing.net/automotive/blog/13110434/the-2...
It's obviously the car. Otherwise you would have heard of this problem well before now.
Sounds like a software/firmware fix. Did they never adjust that logic? queue my hatred for automotive closed ecosystem abandonware