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Car With A Mind Of Its Own -- Part 2

Posted by michael on from the joyride dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As a sequel to the previous Slashdot story where a car 'began accelerating to 120 mph on its own', Renault (the car manufacturer) has examined the supposed faulty car, and as many of us have suspected, no anomaly has been found (google translation). Renault will initiate a court action to discover the truth about the matter. Read more about it here (translation)."

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  1. Computer? by Silverlock · · Score: 1, Troll

    IANAM (I Am Not A Mechanic), but could the problem have been in the car's computer? Perhaps a bug that is temporarily fixed by rebooting? If that's the case, it could be very hard to track down and would also explain why they didn't find anything.

    It seems a bit unrealistic that he would endanger his life for this. Wait.. not unrealistic. Irrational maybe. Oh, and he's a human. Nevermind.