Archive for July, 2011

Judge Finds Ford Fraudulently Concealed Electronic Causes of Unintended Acceleration

Monday, July 25th, 2011

The Senior Judge of the Florida’s Fifth Judicial Circuit has set aside a jury verdict in favor of Ford Motor Company, blasting the automaker for defrauding the court and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration by claiming that it knew of no other cause of unintended acceleration than driver error and for concealing years of [...]

How NHTSA and NASA Gamed the Toyota Data

Thursday, July 21st, 2011

Alice and Randy Whitfield of Quality Control Systems Corp. have released a new analysis for Safety Research & Strategies that examines the statistical underpinnings of the NHTSA and NASA reports on Toyota Unintended Acceleration which shows that the agencies based their conclusions about the possibility of an electronic cause on a series of unsupportable suppositions, [...]