Thanks for not high jacking the other thread.
That discussion was leaning towards the Toyota floormat issue, of which I will comment on. My SIL had a 2003 Lexus that experienced unintended acceleration (UA) having nothing to do with the floormat or sticky pedal. It was not human error on her part and Toyota knew it.
Over a period of two years she experienced UA three times. She concluded it could happen if she drove for over four hours without turning the car off and accelerate at highway speeds without the cruise control engaged. She would slightly accelerate, not floor it, to pass a slower vehicle but when she backed off on the accelerator the vehicle continued to accelerate for a few seconds before decelerating.
After the second episode she took it to Toyota. After keeping the vehicle for three weeks they said the pedal was sticky and they fixed it. About six months later it did it again so she took it back. Toyota said they wanted to keep her vehicle and offered her a great deal to upgrade so she traded the car in.
Toyota knew in 2005 they had an unexplained issue.
Fast forward to 2014 when
THIS comes out AFTER the NASA findings. Note that NASA did not have access to the CM source code.
Considering that it only happened to her after driving for several hours I would place my bet on stack overflow and/or CPU overload.
I also want to point out she has not had any issues with her 2006 Lexus that she still drives with over 200K miles and counting.
