Toyota Acceleration Panic Officially Over
A federal investigation into the recall of Toyota vehicles found no electronic flaws to explain sudden, unintentional acceleration, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The latest report came after a 10-month investigation into whether faulty electronics were responsible for the unintentional high-speed acceleration problem. But the investigation found no evidence for any causes for the unintended acceleration beyond sticking accelerator pedals and floor mat entrapment, though officials said they would consider steps to prevent drivers from pushing wrong the pedal.
“We enlisted the best and the brightest engineers to study Toyota’s electronic systems, and the verdict is in. There is no electronic-based cause for unintended high-speed acceleration in Toyotas,” the transportation secretary, Ray LaHood, said in a statement.
Search my blog for “toyota” and you’ll see it was easy to see this conclusion coming. The story was all hype, breathlessly reported.
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As someone who has survived unintended acceleration,
it doesn’t matter what this report says.
When you have experienced it you know it is
definitely something electronic and not “driver error”. I have read that I should have turned the
ignition off, but that would have stopped ability
to steer, or put car in neutral, none of which crossed my mind when my car started up in reverse
going a high rate of speed. I am lucky, but everyone needs to be prepared to face this since there is no explanation as to how it happens.