Toyotamania, Week Two (National Review, 03.03.10)

Posted by hpayne on March 3, 2010

Detroit — Clarence Ditlow, “safety expert” with the Center for Auto Safety, told the Senate Transportation Committee Tuesday that “the Toyota unintended acceleration crisis” has been caused by “electronic controls” used in cars for the last decade. His solution? “First and foremost, Toyota needs to install electronic brake override systems in all vehicles with electronic throttle control.”

That is, the solution to faulty electronic computer code is to . . . install more electronic computer code!

So went another day of farcical Washington auto-safety hearings. As in the House a week ago, the Senate Transportation Committee eschewed expert engineering witnesses for tort lawyer mouthpiece Ditlow while browbeating federal safety officials into issuing more regulations. . . .

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