Unintended Acceleration Study Update

July 23, 2010 -- The National Research Council has added four new members to its Committee on Electronic Vehicle Controls and Unintended Acceleration, which is reviewing past and current industry and government efforts to identify possible sources of sudden acceleration in motor vehicles. The new committee members are David Gerard, economist, Lawrence University; Pradeep Lall, Thomas Walter Professor, department of mechanical engineering, Auburn University; William A. Radasky, president and managing engineer, Metatech Corp.; and Nadine B. Sarter, associate professor, department of industrial and operations engineering, University of Michigan.

The committee will hold its second meeting on Aug. 2 in Detroit. The committee will also hold a session to receive public input during its October meeting in Washington, D.C.

For committee member's biographies, materials from last meeting, or to make public comments, please visit our resource center for this project at http://www.trb.org/Main/UAStudy.aspx.