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Doug Miller

In article , wrote:
On Mar 2, 9:01=A0pm, (Doug Miller) wrote:
In article , (Don =
Klipstein) wrote:
In , Doug Miller wrote:
The thing that really stood out to me was the statement by Toyota's
president that they're going to look into programming a brake override
for the throttle.

I have only one question: WHY IN GOD'S NAME WAS THAT NOT THERE FROM THE
BEGINNING?

=A0*Programming* a throttle override by the brake? =A0As in relying on =
lack
of electronic malfunction in order to have the brake reliably apply an
override onto the throttle?

Since the override becomes necessary only in the event of a throttle
malfunction, for the override to not work would require a second malfunction.
Clearly two simultaneous malfunctions are *far* less likely than any single
malfunction.

That's obviously totally false.

No, in fact, that's an elementary principle of probability theory: any two
events in combination are less likely to occur than either one of them alone.