[ Thanks to Vikram
for this link. ]
“That’s great – until things start to go wrong. Why
couldn’t a software bug in the drive-by-wire have caused the sudden
acceleration problems? After all, computers crash all the time.“So far, Toyota’s response has boiled down to “trust us, its a
mechanical failure.” There is no way to verify this, because the
actual programming – the code that controls the gas pedal as well
as those other nifty features- is a trade secret.”