A Note on Automobile Cruise Control Faults and Sudden or Unintended Acceleration

by Dr Antony Anderson C.Eng FIEE

• Google News Timeline: Mitsubishi Sudden Acceleration
  
  
  

• August 14 2008 A CAR veered across a dual carriageway in rush-hour traffic today, smashing through a fence before slamming into a packed McDonald's restaurant. Customers looked on in horror as the Mitsubishi Shogun demolished the wall of the fast food outlet, just a few feet from where they were sitting. Hartlepool Mail http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/Drivethrough-horror.4390231.jp  See also http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/7560811.stm


• Business Week online Oct 9 2000 Issue (International Edition) :A Cover-Up at Mitsubishi? As customer complaints rise, police probe the carmaker. You could call Motohiro Kaibara a Mitsubishi man. He works as a mechanic at his family's Mitsubishi Motors Corp. dealership in Kitakyushu, a city in southern Japan. And he will only drive a Mitsubishi. But Kaibara's faith began to unravel last year. That's when a customer nearly ran down his own grandchild while attempting to park a 1998 Mitsubishi Diamante. The driver had just put the car in reverse when it lurched backward, barely missing the child before crashing into a gate.  http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_41/b3702244.htm