Toyota denies any problems with electronics during its tests

Reviewing 3,000 cases of unintended acceleration that were filed since March fails to budge Toyota Motor Corp. from its long-held stance that there were no electronic glitches.

Toyota sent copies of its findings to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, whose investigation is still ongoing. Toyota provided several possible explanations for the complaints. The list includes driver error, foreign objects trapping the accelerator, sticky gas pedals and misidentified cases of normal idle-up.
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kpaxx - 7/22/2010 9:50:31 AM

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Don't believe it! I now personally know two people who have experienced unintended acceleration. One was my friends mother in-law and the other was a neighbor, one in a corolla and the other in an ES350, respectively. Both are competent drivers and I don't estimate driver error as being the issue in these cases. There is something wrong with the electronics and toyota's black boxes are not finding the issue.

800over - 7/22/2010 1:05:33 PM

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So you know to people who don't know their left from their right?

Blindcorner - 7/22/2010 1:09:09 PM

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I side with the fact that it was human error. I believe 85%+ of all drivers are merely adequate. Hell, just go to your local mall and observe, barely 85% of the people there can properly walk!

Joe_Limon - 7/22/2010 7:54:00 PM

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It makes sense that Toyota will deny electrical problems to the bitter end, fixing 8+ million vehicles computers will cost billions of dollars vs the quick cheap zip ties and pins to limit throttle travel.

Joe_Limon - 7/22/2010 7:54:49 PM

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not to mention, this wouldn't be the first shady thing that Toyota has been trying to slip past the public.

agent507 - 7/23/2010 4:25:03 AM

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Hmmmmm, there is no problem, but here is a fix for it. Technically interesting.

-> Maybe that´s part of the magical quality feeling, they can eliminate problems that don´t even exist and blame the damn customer afterwards!

Slowly but surely I am becoming a Toylex follower ... NOT.