Following a similar report by NHTSA, the National Research Council has found that that the electronic throttle-control systems were not the cause of the rash of Toyota accidents in '09-'10.
Part of the report read, "While untraceable electronics faults may be suspected causes of unintended acceleration, this explanation is unsatisfactory when the driver also reports experiencing immediate and full loss of braking. However, such reports are common among complaints of unintended acceleration, and NHTSA attributes them to pedal misapplication when investigations offer no other credible explanation for the catastrophic and coincidental loss of braking."
billt9 says:
03:09 PM, 01/18/12
It must be that more elderly people buy Toyotas. That is why there are more unintended acceleration in Toyotas. Not that the car is broken.
brn says:
04:02 PM, 01/19/12
The report says there's no "electronic" reason for UA. Even Toyota admits to mechanical issues (sticky pedal) for UA. Well, they admitted to it after being caught lying about it. Why do we forget this?
firstwagon says:
06:05 PM, 01/19/12
Because it wasn't the cause of any of the crashes and Toyota went to extraordinary efforts to find any problems with their cars.
Bad drivers looking for someone to blame for their mistakes and lawyers looking for a lottery win paycheck are the ones that we should not forget here.
firstwagon says:
06:17 PM, 01/19/12
Because it wasn't the cause of any of the crashes and Toyota went to extraordinary efforts to find any problems with their cars.
Bad drivers looking for someone to blame for their mistakes and lawyers looking for a lottery win paycheck are the ones that we should not forget here.
roadburner says:
09:04 PM, 01/19/12
"Bad drivers looking for someone to blame for their mistakes and lawyers looking for a lottery win paycheck are the ones that we should not forget here."
Exactly- the jackpot theory of justice.