I came to the same conclusion. There are three sides to every story (or more), what one party says happened, what the other party says happened, and what really happened. And in all likelihood both parties truly believe that their version is correct, based upon their own observations and prejudices born out of their respective initial positions and frames of reference. 

It does seem like SRS had the goal to find evidence that tin whiskers are the cause of UA, and may indeed have. I didn't read thoroughly the entire report, but I got the impression that they didn't do any actual investigation, just looked at everyone else's data and reports and came to the conclusion they desired. It may be the correct conclusion, or may not. 

One point in the report stated that there are two independant pedal position sensors that have different behavior patterns. It would seem that the control system could detect that one was not behaving properly and trigger a fault and fail-safe condition. It would be unlikely but not impossible for both units to develop faults that would fool the contorl system. They seem to sugest that the control system did not detect the mismatch. 

Interesting report, but I'm a confirmed skeptic of virtually everything nowadays.

Blair

On Tue, 24 May 2011 08:41:44 -0500, Pete <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>There were a lot of people that found the original report quizzical.  But to be fair, SRS does have their own prejudice in the matter.  Which means the truth lies somewhere in between.  But either way, the fact that they found so many whiskers in an acceleration control of an automobile leads to a scary "what else" question  that should have been raised even from the NASA and NHTSA reports.  Thanks to SRS for keeping on this!
>

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