Video Expert recreates Toyota sudden acceleration

[boston bean]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRN1CnKrc84&NR=1

You have to watch the video.

The video shows an electronic short that could occur with corrosion and wetness. But it shows that no error or fault when tested later.

[greyl]

1. This is the old ABC /Gilbert thing that has been debunked. nt

[boston bean]

3. It was debunked by Toyota right? nt

[greyl]

4. No, Popular Mechanics and other people who actually know about cars.

Probably Toyota, too, but I won't be looking to them as the central authority on the issue.
It also helps to know a little about human behavior.

[boston bean]

5. Can you provide a Pouplar Mechanics article that doesn't use the paid by Toyota debunking committee?

I would really like to read it.

[greyl]

10. Can you provide one that does? I'd like to see the evidence behind your post. nt

[LakeSamish706]

2. Toyota is going to get the crap kicked out of them on this. How do you

guard against scams?

[IDemo]

6. The debunking of Gilbert here->

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3gQWGZ8uBw&feature=related

[boston bean]

7. That was helpful. Thank you. Although it still did not record an error.

Is there other scenarios that are not recorded as an error?

[IDemo]

8. I'm not a Toyota mechanic or engineer, but I can try

I'm assuming an error would normally be generated whenever the output voltages (there are two) from the pedal assembly are out of range or missing entirely. Gilbert (or is it Kane in the video?) doesn't describe for the reporter exactly what he's doing, but he is obviously overriding the pedal with signals from a DC power supply that match what a full throttle signal would look like. If these two voltages are within the normal range of a floored pedal, they wouldn't trigger an error. It's highly unlikely that an electrical fault (short, open, or grounded wires) in the sensor circuitry in the pedal or the signal cable connecting to the computer would fail in such a manner as to create the 2-to-1 voltage levels the engine control unit is expecting. See Figure 1 - "TYPICAL ELECTRICAL OUTPUT" at the bottom of the datasheet for the CTS pedal.

http://www.ctscorp.com/automotive/datasheets/703.pdf

[ProgressiveProfessor]

9. Its been debunked...