This masked video troll is the zeitgeist. His 40-odd f-bomb-fueled demonstration of how to stop a Prius captures the mood among a swath of consumers that runaway Toyotas are just the fault of "stupid" drivers. Nevermind that the driver of an out-of-control Lexus did both the "power off" and "put it in neutral" tricks he shows, potentially pointing to an electronics system issue, and it didn't help. "Get your head out of your ass, stop thinking about saving the planet, and figure out how to drive your car," he admonishes. Very NSFW, cursing. (Thanks to Tom!)...
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Yesterday, a court in South Carolina overturned an $18 million verdict against Ford stemming from a fatal 1999 incident involving a Ford Explorer. Their reasoning behind the reversal -- an expert who testified about the vehicle's cruise control system apparently knew nothing about cruise control systems. The accident left the then-17-year-old driver paralyzed and killed one of her passengers when the 1995 Explorer went off an Interstate near Greenville, SC. They claimed at the time that the vehicle began to accelerate suddenly after the driver engaged the cruise control. During the 2006 trial, an electrical engineer testified for the plaintiff....
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