mainstream media monitoring system, speculation has been rampant that
some mysterious electronic problem was at the root of the unintended
acceleration scandal. We’ve been wary of jumping on the
“ghost-in-the-machine” bandwagon, for a number of reasons, chief among
which is the fact that it seems to be the product of an inability to
explain specific instances of unintended acceleration, rather than hard
evidence. Given that unintended acceleration occurs at the intersection
of man and machine, good old-fashioned human error is an easier
assumption than mystery software errors.
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