Investigation of unintended acceleration in Toyota cars is crossing cosmic boundaries The 2009 Toyota Accelerator Scandal That Wasn’t What It Seemed. Toyota's US 'cosmic ray' inquiry 14 th Apr 2010 7:00 am. Anyway, it looks like federal regulators Toyota's sudden acceleration problem is due to cosmic rays based on the idea it has affected airplanes and space craft before.
A copy of the slides presented during the oral report at the sc hool can be found at the URL below Toyota, which has led the auto industry in using electronic controls, told the Free Press its engine controls are "robust against this type of interference." Toyota’s problem with unintended acceleration has been blamed on everything from the position of the floor mats to the shape of the accelerator pedal to glitches in the cars’ software. Detroit Free Press: Are cosmic rays really causing Toyota's woes? Sorry for the link, it is the print portion and was the only one I can find on the topic, don't click on it if you don't want to as I summarized below. Meagan Parrish (AP Photo) In 2009, Toyota accelerator pedals began mysteriously getting stuck, at times trapping panicked drivers in out-of-control cars that tragically crashed. Cosmic ray electrons are responsible for synchrotron and inverse Compton emission in many parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, and it appears likely, although not yet completely certain, that gamma-rays generated through pion decay provide a direct window into in situ acceleration of TeV-PeV protons. Also radio lab: Cosmic rays are specifically targeting Toyota cars. With more than 3,000 complaints to U.S. regulators of random sudden acceleration problems in Toyota models, several researchers say single event upsets deserve a close look.
While cosmic interference may not get Toyota off the hook, it may lead to much wider implications for the auto industry as it moves towards an ever-more computer-based paradigm. The mathematical theory of this acceleration includes the effect of reaction of the cosmic ray beam upon the turbulent magnetized gas.
Seriously. But only until Toyota settles a court case. Discussion in ' Prius, Hybrid, EV and Alt-Fuel News ' started by a1a1a1 , Mar 23, 2010 . And why it matters for understanding our rocky relationship with today’s autonomous vehicles. Cosmic rays are high-energy protons and atomic nuclei which move through space at nearly the speed of light.They originate from the sun, from outside of the solar system, and from distant galaxies.
Are Cosmic Rays Causing Toyota's 'Sudden Acceleration' Problem? It is becoming increasingly clear that the issues are manyfold. Radio lab: Cosmic bit flips are rare and usually benign.
More specifically their brakes and/or accelerators. Page 1 of 2 1 2 Next > To have it cause a problem is unique and to see the same problem to the same degree twice (let alone 100+) is impossible. Federal regulators are studying whether recent Toyota sudden unintended acceleration problems are caused by cosmic rays.
NASA scientists have been brought in to examine how Toyota’s electronic controls could be affected by electromagnetic radiation, software faults and cosmic rays. Cosmic Rays and Particle Acceleration Nick Murphy Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Astronomy 253: Plasma Astrophysics April 14{16, 2014 These lecture notes are based o of P. Carlson (2012), Zweibel (2013), Kulsrud, and slides by P. Blasi and others.