Software may be the problem, along with user ignorance of how to handle the keyless ignition system. However, I had actually read (before the Toyota thing started) that manufacturers in general had glitches with their software, or problems that were thought to be software related, which had resulted in accidents. It was considered to be a growing problem and difficult to solve or identify, and this included American companies as well.
This latest raid, however, isn’t related to that but is supposedly part of an anti-trust action. The only thing I think we can all bet on is that, under any name, it’s really an attack on one of the main competitors of Government Motors.
Yesterday I watched a vid that showed the computer on a Camry could not detect a short in the fuel or throttle assembly. That was pretty scary. No faults recorded...at all. Yet the car accelerated rapidly. He didn’t even have his foot on the pedal. Brrr.
As far as anti trust, I think this passage, the last line especially, from a Supreme Court decision involving the Sherman Act gives us a hint of where 0bama is going with this...
“The purpose of the Sherman Act is not just to protect businesses from the working of the market; it is also to protect the public from the failure of the market. The law directs itself not against conduct which is competitive, even severely so, but against conduct which unfairly tends to destroy competition itself.”