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Re: Excessive acceleration of 4 wheel drive vehicles on level ground.

Ed Phillips (edphill@aol.com)
Sun, 15 Dec 1996 00:37:06 -0500 (EST)

I think history backs Wade up here. Research in Japan, Canada, and by NHTSA all showed that an unintentional accelerations were almost always caused by operator error. Misidentification of gas pedal, unfamilar with vehicle, etc.
Ed Phillips
edphill@aol.com

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