Looks like SIUC prof. David Gilbert's research is getting attacked/questioned by Toyota. No real surprise there, nor the resignation of two Toyota executives from the school's Automobile Technology board of directors.
Update: It appears Gilbert has been retained by a safety expert who is working with lawyers, likely with an eye towards lawsuits aimed at Toyota.
Could the professor be wrong?"... [S]udden unintended acceleration (SUA) is notoriously difficult to diagnose because, more often then not, the problem can't be repeated in front of a mechanic. Let's not forget the Audi SUA episode back in the '80s; the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration eventually concluded that there was no mechanical problem. The culprit, as hard as this is to admit, was most likely driver error. To put the issue into context, in the last decade, there were about 24,000 customer complaints about SUA involving almost every major automaker. The NHTSA investigated fewer than 50."
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