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Hyundai Sonata Unexplainably Accelerates Forward and then Back

This is a rather strange incident. A Hyundai Sonata, used as a taxi cab in South Korea, which was being filmed from behind via a dash-mounted camera, can be seen moving in the Seoul traffic, when all of a sudden it accelerates forward and into the car in front.
Its tires begin to spin, as it is pinned into the car it has just crashed into, creating a lot of smoke - it may also be the engine overheating, but the tires theory is more plausible here. However, the incident is far from over, as the Hyundai is put into reverse, and it accelerates backwards, crashing into the car filming it.

Investigation is currently pending, but considering the fact that the car was reportedly just two weeks old, basically brand-new, it may be a manufacturing flaw of some sort. Driver error may also have been the case, but again, it is just a theory.
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