U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced two major investigations designed to answer questions surrounding the issue of unintended vehicle acceleration.
The prestigious National Academy of Sciences – an independent body using top scientific experts – will examine the broad subject of unintended acceleration and electronic vehicle controls across the entire automotive industry. Separately, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which is the Department of Transportation’s auto safety agency, has enlisted NASA engineers with expertise in areas such as computer controlled electronic systems, electromagnetic interference and software integrity to help tackle the issue of unintended vehicle acceleration in Toyotas.
Now I ask you. Would the United States government do all this if it didn’t suspect some type of foul play.Of course they wouldn’t. We have a lot riding on the green economy. Billions of dollars invested. From a business stand point its only natural to protect your investment. We don’t want to get caught in between to feuding Asian automakers. WW II started for a lot less than this. Hopefully the U.S, can defuse the situation. And how do they diffuse it? They put all these big time scientists on the payroll. They come up with a theory. Initially Toyota will argue against theory to make it look good. They don’t want the public to know that they play the industrial espionage game. After a couple of weeks Toyota will grudgingly accept the NASA theory. They give up a big part of their market share to Nissan but not everything.
