Oops I did it again - Grand Cherokee’s unintended acceleration
Well, I suppose this is partly “flavor of the month” stuff - once a story goes mainstream, everyone and the wacky bag-lady down the street has a similar story.
I sure hope for DC it really is a case of folks not paying attention - similar claims damn near killed Audi in North America back in the early to mid eighties.
Too bad for Daimler Chrysler, though, these ones are being documented.
“So far this year, it looks like there’s been an average of one every 19 days,” he told PCC Online?. “There been one in Detroit, Milwaukee, a couple in upstate New York.'’
Daimler Chrysler, which makes Jeep, has said publicly that several studies have concluded “driver error is the only plausible explanation for sudden acceleration.”
Newman disputed that claim. “If it were operator error, we would have equal rates (of accidents) with other makes and models.'’
Full story available here: http://www.carwash.com/news.asp?mode=4&N_ID=62161
Sphere: Related Content
