Pete, I would suggest that vigorous questioning is how we get answers and an instrumental part of any healthy debate. 

I understand what you are saying about how crying wolf could over time give critics a chance to undermine legitimate negative evidence, but I also think that a lack of aggressive pushback *contributed* to the current state. Toyota's problems may well be a red herring in the lead-free reliability debate, but it's fair to say that with no RoHS, we wouldn't even be having this discussion. 

Mike

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-----Original Message-----
From:         Pete Houwen <[log in to unmask]>
Date:         Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:04:22 
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [LF] Expert recreates Toyota sudden acceleration

callling attention to unfounded "possibiilities" will be damaging to any attempts 
to educate on the dangers of lead free solder.  Crying wolf will only destroy 
credibility.

There is NO data, evidence, indications, etc. whatsoever that the Toyota 
problems are in any way related to tin whiskers or lead free solder.  All 
implications of electronic failure are EMI and software related.   Not even sure 
why this is a topic of discussion on the LeadFree forum.

Pete

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