Suzuki Samurai was Re: [geeks] SPARC proprietary (waaaay off topic)

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>  Kind of like CBS did with 
> the Audi unintended acceleration episode of the early 80's.  When the 
> car wouldn't perform on cue, they internaly altered the transmission by 
> removing detent springs from the valve body to make it jump out of park.

Was that the incidents where the Audi 5000 used to jump forward and their 
comment was that the people couldn't tell the difference between the 
brake and the accelerator?  One little known fact was the Audi was very
sensitive to RFI and that was the effect.  There was a QST magazine article
where some one had to completely sheild the "computer" or it would
accelerate evey time he would transmit.  Hmmm......
Bob