Comments on: Staged footage in ABC News Toyota “test”

By: Richard Nieporent

Richard Nieporent — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:42:55 +0000

Litigator, I would suggest you stick to law and leave engineering to those who understand it.

By: Litigiator

Litigiator — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:17:15 +0000

Wait a sec – I saw that report. The engineering professor was quite up front about the fact he’d wired the car to suddenly accelerate. Indeed, he had a big board with wires on it that he showed the camera.

His point was a simple one, and one that Toyota’s charm offensive has not addressed. His point was this: when a Toyota suddenly accelerates, it leaves no record on the car’s black box computer. Thus, if in fact the cars do suddenly accelerate, we can’t confirm it on the black box. That was the point the professor made.

Toyota’s fighting a great fight here but it’s against a straw man.

By: Richard Nieporent

Richard Nieporent — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:07:32 +0000

The old “fake but accurate” gambit. The MSM has no shame.

By: Bumper

Bumper — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:59:17 +0000

The Rule of Lawyers … available for Amazon Kindle

Yes, yes, but will be available for the iPad?