Audi Unintended Acceleration
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Audi unintended acceleration. In November 1986 the CBS news show 60 Minutes aired a dramatic segment that skewered Audis largest sedan then called the 5000 as fatally dangerous due. A California jury returned a 35 million verdict against Audi on a pedalplacement theory after the plaintiffs lawyers abandoned a sudden acceleration claim. But the Audi cases arent isolated.
The most common is the misapplication of the pedals ie wishing to stop press brake intending to go press the gas pedal get it wrong and you get unintended acceleration. Once an unintended acceleration had begun in the Audi 5000 due to a failure in the idle-stabilizer system producing an initial acceleration of 03g pedal misapplication resulting from panic confusion or unfamiliarity with the Audi 5000 contributed to the severity of the incident. Heres a rare 5-speed-equipped example in a.
Sudden unintended acceleration is the most deadly defect in the history of automation. Acceleration works like fire a cruel master and a good servant. It happens when the cars electronics cause the throttle to.
Andrew Bianchi Charles Braden Ryan English Bill Fluhr Eric Fluhr Ken Fluhr Kang Lee Mike McGovern Jimmy Pribble Crew and Support. The Audi 5000S considered to be one of the best-built automobiles in the world is the center of a controversy around a problem called unintended acceleration. And despite dramatic horsepower increases since CDs 1987 unintended-acceleration test of an Audi 5000 brakes by and large can still overpower and rein in.
By mid-summer of 1987 Audi owners reported over 100 incidents of unintended acceleration on Audi 5000s with a shift lock device. Another appeal is pending. In 1986 60 minutes did a story on Audi after a woman had pinned her 6 year old son between the front of her car and the garage door.
Audi Performance and Tuner - Intended Acceleration. A 60 Minutes report aired 23 November 1986 featuring interviews with six people who had sued Audi after reporting unintended acceleration showing an Audi 5000 ostensibly suffering a problem when the brake pedal was pushed. The Audi 5000 with automatic transmission was the car that brought the term sudden unintended acceleration into everyday use.