Investigations into sudden acceleration issues have put a spotlight on everything that can go wrong with automotive electronics. “Electromagnetic interference leaves no trace. It goes away just as it came,” says Michel Mardiguian, an engineer and consultant near Paris who worked with a European automaker on a gremlin-like electronic fault. Toyota is not alone in its troubles. While under development, Ford’s Escape hybrid would shut off as it left a particular supermarket parking lot in California. Ford reworked the electronics to ensure that wouldn’t happen again, but auto engineering experts say hybrids inherently have more potential for electromagnetic interference.Read more in the New Haven Registerand USA Today.
Toyota Crisis Spotlights EMI Role in Auto Electronics, Hybrids
