[SystemSafety] Yet another supposedly-runaway car

[Nancy Leveson]

It did happen 20 years ago. Remember the Audi experience in the 90's?

This particular case is a little suspect although I don't doubt most of
them.

Nancy

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 5:25 AM, Peter Bernard Ladkin <
ladkin at rvs.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:

> Here we are again.
>
> From today's Risks Forum Digest 27.18:
>
>  Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:03:59 PST
>> From: "Peter G. Neumann" <neumann at csl.sri.com>
>> Subject: Hyundai controller failure?
>>
>> ... allegedly causes high speed chase/crash:
>>
>> http://www.autoblog.com/2013/**02/22/hyundai-elantras-**
>> alleged-unintended-**acceleration-sends-teen-po/#**continued<http://www.autoblog.com/2013/02/22/hyundai-elantras-alleged-unintended-acceleration-sends-teen-po/#continued>
>>
>>
> It is hard for me to believe that these things continue happening and are
> unresolved. So what and where are the resolutions? They can't all be due to
> Toyota car mats getting stuck.
>
> Are they due, perhaps, to people becoming "frozen" (a phenomenon
> well-known to flight instructors) and not being able to apply brakes or
> turn off engines?
>
> And why is it happening now, and not (say) twenty years ago?
>
> PBL
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