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NEW YORK — Toyota Motor Corp. plans Monday to try to undercut suggestions that its electronics systems caused the sudden acceleration problems that led to the recall of more than 8 million vehicles.
Toyota will try to duplicate the results reported by David W. Gilbert, a professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Gilbert told Congress on Feb. 23 that he was able to re-create sudden acceleration in a Toyota vehicle by manipulating its electronics.
Toyota said Stanford University professor Chris Gerdes will show that the malfunctions Gilbert produced “are completely unrealistic under real-world conditions.” Stanford’s Center for Automotive Research is funded by a group of auto companies, including Toyota.
