The Toyota unintended acceleration case
decided by a jury two weeks ago may have hinged on the testimony of an
embedded systems expert who definitively said there was no pedal
misapplication. Michael Barr, CTO and co-founder of Barr Group,
told the court that the fatal accident involving a 2005 Toyota Camry
was the result of a systematic software malfunction, combined with a
loss of throttle control.
”The dispute in this case is related to computer software and
hardware,” J. Cole Portis, attorney for the plaintiffs, said in a
summation argument obtained by Design News. “That is what we have talked
about; that is the issue in the case…”Read more.....
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