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Originally Posted by svsantosh

... So the events that led Toyota to recall 10 million vehicles may go down in industrial history as the biggest mountain of a crisis ever made out of the smallest molehill of a technical glitch. We now have verifiable facts, rather than conclusions drawn by politicians, media pundits, and lawyers based on assumptions, innuendo and fear. ...

Source : Nasa Website

Came across this excellent podcast on Toyota's "Unintended Acceleration" issue:

http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/pano...&autoplay=true


It's by Malcolm Gladwell, the author of Tipping Point, Blink, etc.

Part of his 'Revisionist History' series, where he goes back and reinterprets something from the past that was overlooked or misunderstood.

It basically systematically explores the possible reasons, and eventually concludes the same : it was human error.

A very interesting listen!