| ??? 02/24/10 02:48 Read: times |
#173501 - the clue Responding to: ???'s previous message |
the clue is in your phrase: 'an episode of "Sixty Minutes", a popular U.S. news feature "magazine" on TV'.
it was actually 1986! pre-WWW! imagine a world free of 24/7 web-saturated media content ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi#Reported_sudden_unintended_acceleration Audi's U.S. sales fell after a series of recalls from 1982-1987 of Audi 5000 models[13] associated with reported incidents of sudden unintended acceleration linked to six deaths and 700 accidents.[13] At the time, NHTSA was investigating 50 car models from 20 manufacturers for sudden surges of power.[14] A 60 Minutes report aired November 23, 1986,[15] featuring interviews with six people who had sued Audi after reporting unintended acceleration, showing an Audi 5000 ostensibly suffering a problem when the brake pedal was pushed.[16][17] Subsequent investigation revealed that 60 Minutes had engineered the failure — fitting a canister of compressed air on the passenger-side floor, linked via a hose to a hole drilled into the transmission.[15] |
