Who’s at fault?

In the “Blame Game” By Revisionist History Malcolm Gladwell begins with informing us about the catastrophe with the Toyota company. How, Mark Sailor a 45 year old lad that just had been assigned a Lexus IS as a loaner vehicle after dropping his vehicle off to a Toyota dealership due to the cd player not working properly. After receiving his loaned vehicle Sailor then goes to his home to pick up his family for a night out. As Gladwell shows an audio recording of that that night Sailor’s passenger had called the police about how the loaner vehicle had a broken accelerator right before their incident. Toyota then faces with a tremendous fine after taking the blame for the incident. Malcolm argues that the fault is with the driver and not Toyota. To prove his argument Malcolm Gladwell then rents a 2003 Toyota Camry and meets up with 3 representatives of car and driver at a speed way in Detroit along with his producer Jacob to reenact the catastrophe. Each got into the vehicle with professional drivers and testing that both Gladwell and Jacob had conducted had come out with the same results. The breaks of the vehicle indeed do operate properly which left Gladwell with a curiosity. Further into the podcast he then gets an interview with someone named Schmitt. There was a part where in the podcast where Gladwell said that that the brain delivers a message to what to do but, the body neglects the reactions. Gladwell then gives examples of baseball players with there strikes. Schmitt follows up with ” Driver get into a state where he feels like he’s acting normally but he’s not, somewhere between intention and action a garble.” plays his audio interview and Schmitt states that “Driver puts his foot on the accelerator thinking it is the breaks and accelerates instead.” Schmitt then says to Gladwell that these are all patterns of a new owners. Basically Schmitt argues that it the lack of knowing the vehicle is what caused the incident basically it is the drivers fault. There was a part where in the podcast where Gladwell said that that the brain delivers a message to what to do but, the body neglects the reactions. Gladwell then gives examples of baseball players with there strikes. Schmitt follows up with ” Gets into a state where he feels like he’s acting normally but he’s not, somewhere between intention and action a garble.” Perhaps Schmitt is right. Gladwell then provides us with the information on how NASA even got involved and ran some testing. According to Gladwell Nasa concluded that it was a paddle error. Each vehicle carries a black box that records when the breaks and the accelerator has been used. NASA concluded that the black box showed no signs of the breaks ever being used at the moment of the incident.