Toyota's Woes

Toyota is the current whipping boy of investigative journalism and government oversight. Crashes mount, and the injured bring charges of super acceleration without cause. Recalls covered gas pedals and floor mats. Now the chief suspect is electronic interference.

One analysis revealed that wild acceleration occurred as the drivers passed high-power lines. An article posted on the Fox News website says,

“While it’s not clear exactly where the Camry started to malfunction, the car passed under a bridge and several power lines shortly before impact. Big power lines that can generate powerful fields of energy.

“Professor Paul Steffes of the Georgia Institute of Technology says ‘those invisible fields are caused by current flowing through the wire…also the electrical voltage on the wire creates a different kind of a field called an electrical field both are capable of creating voltages in other devices.’”

Thirty-nine suspected Toyota sudden acceleration deaths do appear to be loosely clustered around the heaviest parts of the U.S. electrical grid, but no definitive link between the two has been made.

However, this is not idle speculation in view of the restriction on use of electronic devices while airliners are taking off and landing since they may interfere with the aircraft’s electronic controls. Some years ago I tried working my small electronic Franklin Bible in my car. Every time a key was pushed, a loud buzz could be heard through the radio.

Recently, a report from Great Britain revealed that some GPS-jamming devices had been used by thieves who had stolen cars so equipped to divert detection. The device costs about $49. Should this be used on commercial airliners, it could cause a crash since electronic controls would be altered.

When a car’s cruise control button is held down, the car accelerates evenly. I have speculated that perhaps some kind of interference is making this happen with the computers in Toyotas and possibly other auto makers as well, and the car speeds up as if the cruise control was in the accelerate mode. It may have nothing to do with manufacturer’s incompetence but everything to do with external electronic influence.

With computers, cell phones and other electronic devices being used more and more often in or near autos, it may become apparent that otherwise harmless situations could turned deadly if the car’s controlling computer receives unintended foreign impulses.

While Toyota’s problem may not be a specific precursor to global collapse, it focuses on the fact that electronic weaponry could be employed to subdue the world. What if some saboteur is experimenting with the influence of electro-magnetic pollution? What would happen if terrorists could confuse whole areas—an entire city, for example—where all the vehicles would go a bit berserk?

Electronic terrorism is likely the weapon of choice for Antichrist who will appear in the Tribulation after the exodus of the redeemed and completed Church in what is called the Rapture (I Thessalonians 4:16–18). I suspect that the stranglehold of Antichrist will be a computer access code available only to his worshippers.

Further, it appears that in the Tribulation the global economy crumbles in a very brief period of time—a single hour according to Revelation 18:10. If the global economy is all on computer, anyone who could totally control it electronically could destroy it in a single second and even possibly hold the world hostage.

Electronic chaos—accidental or otherwise—has shown its ugly face. Anyone have a better explanation for Toyota’s woes than electronically-created computer failure? Think what could happen if its intent was wide-spread malice.

Dave Virkler