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Originally Posted by wraymond
Of course reportage is, after all, just one version and subjective at that.
However, given the possible reaction to guesswork and phoney fairy tales by a vested interest to the tune of $billions, they must have a reasonable assumption of accuracy!
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But why? When those petrol-powered cars were doing the same thing years ago (allegedly) there would still need to be an unfeasible set of simultaneous failures:
1/ Throttle (or cruise control) stuck wide open, PLUS
2/ Failure of the ignition switch to switch off, PLUS
3/ Failure of the brakes, PLUS
4/ Failure of the transmission to change into neutral
All simultaneous failures. OK, maybe I'm missing something, but it looks vanishingly unlikely to me. Compare it with this:
1/ Vehicle is fine but driver wants his 15 minutes of fame plus damages, so pretends the vehicle is running away and makes a frantic phone call.
I know which I think is most likely.
I'm not sure what your point is about the $billions; the media will publish a story like this without hesitation, so long as the incident actually happened.