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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (72852)	3/16/2010 3:26:47 AM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

What is amazing is how many people take the uncontrolled acceleration claims seriously. Journalists are supposed to be, cynical, jaded, skeptical [and normally are but perhaps "Big Oil" Big Multinational Corporation" and other hot buttons get their juices flowing and they'll believe any stupid thing about approved whipping boys and scape goats. I liked the graph of age vs uncontrolled acceleration which showed a great skewing to uncontrolled acceleration happening with cars driven by old people. It's unlikely that the vehicles detect the driver's age and react accordingly. In the data about age versus uncontrolled acceleration, there was no "per kilometre traveled" adjustment either. It was left implicit that the old and young traveled the same distances per year, but old people do a LOT less mileage than whipper snappers. My mother experienced uncontrolled acceleration decades ago in a car with no electronics, computers etc. She simply pushed the accelerator rather than brake and went shooting straight over a T intersection, through a brick wall, across a lawn and into a brick house. It was understandable because the pedals in the manual transmission car were way off to the left. The brake pedal was where one would expect the clutch and the accelerator pedal where one would expect the brake. I was able to drive it without problem, but it was odd [it was my brother's wife's old dunger of a car - I forget the make and model but it was something odd]. Mqurice