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DOING THE MEDIA PROUD

Autoweek Magazine -- Whatever sliver of respect you had left for our nation's television media has likely been crushed in the last few days. Surely you've heard about David W. Gilbert, an automotive technology professor at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. Gilbert said he could recreate unintended acceleration in a Toyota by short-circuiting the electronics. Trouble is, the way Gilbert created the "problem" included shaving insulation from wires and touching together wires that would never get close to each other in the real world.

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Submitted Mar 11, 2010 By: Manolo1
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Message Posted: Mar 11, 2010 12:29:59 PM

respect for media? not much.

as for finding a means or recreating the problem, it was like csi trying various methods.
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