The Kane and Gilbert Hoax - the case of invisible evidence

Carquestions takes an inside look at the testimony of David Gilbert and Sean Kane as they try and sell a wild theory to Congress. The associate professor Gilbert puts his hand to a remake of some of automotive history's most discredited theories of unintended acceleration while Mr. Kane produces the cooked up paperwork in order to support it. Carquestions attempts to explain "Gilbert's Theorem" but in the end finds a simple explanation is more than sufficient. Interestingly the hearings bring out information first reported on YouTube of January 30th that the gas pedal isn't the cause. - possibly saving Mark from losing the $1000 reward he offered on February 10th.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Kane
• Gilbert
• Toyota
• hearings
• testimony
• congress
• sudden
• unintended
• acceleration
• Smith
• expert
• witness
• SUA

[1970gtosd]

Why does the accellerator have to be computer controlled anyways?

[carquestions]

@1970gtosd Short answer is for fuel economy and packaging - cables had there problems

too - What do you think turns the throttle in a bus, train or plane? These systems have been around before the year 1998 in corvettes and other cars - I haven't seen any go bad yet.

[carquestions]

March 31, 2010, 9:30 pm - Sources familiar with the NHTSA / Toyota investigations have reported to Carquestions that all of the investigations of the past two weeks (more than 8) have all resulted in a finding of "driver error" and no vehicle defects have been found. It is also reported that NHTSA will halt its current round of investigations into Toyota sudden acceleration claims until further notice.

[carquestions]

New Video - Carquestions challenges GM to "man up" and recall 12 million vehicles for a safety and emissions defect concerning broken exhaust manifold bolts. Mark has researched and experienced rusted and broken exhaust manifold bolts on GM vehicles over the past few years and can't believe GM won't acknowledge the problem through a recall or TSB. Thousands of Silverado, Sierra, Suburban, Tahoe, Yukon and even Escalade owners have spent millions...

[carquestions]

This does - every manual shift car uses the same computer as the automatics - tell me why the same computer would fail only in cars with one less pedal?

[siucchris]

@carquestions Talk to NASA and NHTSA about this................

NHTSA and NASA have confirmed tin whiskers, with a similar resistance to the one induced by Gilbert, were found in a Toyota APPS.

[kilgoja]

haha this is really funny...japanese are far better with electrical components than anyone else in the world....this is such a joke

[rbrucepeterson]

Hopefully we can get to the bottom of this.

I don't believe that this is the cause of the acceleration issues, but the circuit theory explains how the car could act that the gas pedal is down when it's not. It's possible that there is a cause other than the wires, say if the solder used was a non-lead solder and grew tin bridges. In cases such as that, microscopic resistive shorts could happen in random circuits within the control unit causing unpredictable behavior.

[Yashveersingh87]

Gilbert was a poephol,

[wcaba001]

As an Electrical Engineer, I partly agree and disagree with this video. It is true that no evidence of corrosion makes the wire shorting theory unlikely. HOWEVER, this video is incorrect in assuming the wires need to escape the plastic loom and make contact with the car's metallic ground. ALL electronic components carry a reference ground, any wire carrying a ground signal would be enough to short the accelerator wires. These are digital wires so the 200 ohm resistance is unneccessary to occur.