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ABC News Toyota Acceleration Hoax
Jalopnik ^ | 3-9-2010 | Matt Hardigree

Posted on 03/08/2010 12:33:34 PM PST by KingOfVagabonds

In a press conference today, Toyota slammed the mechanics behind Brian Ross' ABC News report on unintended acceleration, showing how they were manipulated by recreating the same fault on a Chevy, Mercedes, Honda and Ford. Here's how the hoax occurred.

(Excerpt) Read more at jalopnik.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abc; abcnews; acceleration; automakers; hoax; mediabias; toyota; unwanted; unwantedacceleration
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1 posted on 03/08/2010 12:33:34 PM PST by KingOfVagabonds
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To: KingOfVagabonds

Yikes!


2 posted on 03/08/2010 12:34:31 PM PST by GoCards ("We eat therefore we hunt...")
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To: KingOfVagabonds

Of course networks would never fake test results would they?


3 posted on 03/08/2010 12:35:24 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: KingOfVagabonds

Remember the Dateline NBC sidesaddle fuel tanks hoax?


4 posted on 03/08/2010 12:36:26 PM PST by Haiku Guy (If you have a right / To the service I provide / I must be your slave.)
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To: KingOfVagabonds

Lies, lies, and more lies out of this Administration and Liberals. Not a good day in Corruption City.


5 posted on 03/08/2010 12:37:21 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead (Clean the RAT/RINO Sewer in 2010 and 2012)
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To: KingOfVagabonds
The fact that it can be replicated on other cars does NOT mean it is right.
6 posted on 03/08/2010 12:37:26 PM PST by mad_as_he$$ (usff.com)
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To: KingOfVagabonds
"Hey! That's our shtick!" NBC News

(The cherry-bomb-in-the-gas-tank exploding tank report.)

7 posted on 03/08/2010 12:39:23 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Haiku Guy

“...sidesaddle fuel tanks hoax?”

Yep, a little side impact and a little rocket motor (with electrical ignition) will make ‘em explode every time!


8 posted on 03/08/2010 12:39:38 PM PST by ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY (It's the spending, Stupid!)
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To: KingOfVagabonds

ABC “News” biggest hoax was in getting Obama into office.

Many news stories on ABC are big hoaxes.


9 posted on 03/08/2010 12:39:47 PM PST by FormerACLUmember (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. - H. L. Menken.)
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To: dfwgator

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1DEG6BWgp0


10 posted on 03/08/2010 12:41:56 PM PST by ltc8k6
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To: Haiku Guy

and 60 minutes Audi hoax.


11 posted on 03/08/2010 12:45:27 PM PST by Cousin Eddie
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To: mad_as_he$$

This appears to be significant and I would hold your fire until Toyota does some other studies. I have the feeling that the wiring was modified just as Toyota has demonstrated.


12 posted on 03/08/2010 12:46:13 PM PST by texmexis best
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To: KingOfVagabonds

For the technically challenged among us, does this mean Toyota’s accelerators don’t actually have anything wrong with them?


13 posted on 03/08/2010 12:47:55 PM PST by American Quilter (Really, really scared the Dems will succeed in passing Obamacare.)
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To: mad_as_he$$

“The fact that it can be replicated on other cars does NOT mean it is right.”

But the fact that they had to purposely and physically hack the throttle system makes the whole “demonstration” a meaningless lie.


14 posted on 03/08/2010 12:51:07 PM PST by Pessimist (u)
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To: KingOfVagabonds; Reaganez

Reaganez was hopping on about how rotten Jap Toyota is. Yeah, right!

Here’s his thread from day-o ago. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2465815/posts

Hey, Rez-boy, where’s the Chevy, Mercedes, Honda and Ford ‘simulators’????


15 posted on 03/08/2010 12:51:31 PM PST by bvw
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To: American Quilter

Yes. Other than the feet pressing them.


16 posted on 03/08/2010 12:54:16 PM PST by naturalized
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To: American Quilter
The only thing wrong with them is that they sell so much.

When the figures came in from Cash for clunkers, they lost a lug nut when they saw how everyone bought a Toyota, so they jumped on this and rode for all it's worth.

17 posted on 03/08/2010 12:55:13 PM PST by norraad ("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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To: naturalized

So no one’s actually died from faulty accelerators?


18 posted on 03/08/2010 12:56:35 PM PST by American Quilter (Really, really scared the Dems will succeed in passing Obamacare.)
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To: norraad

Their grand plan went awry! Like all friggin bastards they are in the end, dumb.


19 posted on 03/08/2010 12:56:56 PM PST by bvw
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To: KingOfVagabonds

20 posted on 03/08/2010 12:58:39 PM PST by RedMDer (Recycle Congress in 2010, 2012... Forward with Confidence! Forward!)
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