Posted on 03/15/2010 5:49:54 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Technicians with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Toyota Motor Corp. could not duplicate the unintended acceleration reported by a Prius driver in California last week, according to a published report.
The lawyer of the motorists involved in the run-away-vehicle incident received a congressional memo informing him of the finding, the Associated Press reported Sunday. The memo also questioned his client's version of events.
The memo was based on the observations of a congressional staffer who attended a two-day inspection last week at a Toyota dealership in suburban San Diego.
A Toyota official who attended the inspection was cited as saying the drive power of the Prius would have shut down during a circumstance when both the gas pedal and the brake were fully engaged.
"It does not appear to be feasibly possible, both electronically and mechanically that his gas pedal was stuck to the floor and he was slamming on the brake at the same time," according to the congressional report for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
James Sikes, 61, says he reached 94 mph on a California freeway on March 8 when his Toyota Prius underwent sudden unintended acceleration....
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Apparently, their real problem has been successfully advertising to old people. Over half the runaway accelerations that led to death happened to people over 60.
This clown had time for a 20+ minute 911 call and didn’t have time to try neutral? If that’s the case, he shouldn’t be allowed to drive.
Steve Wozniak strongly disagrees with you, it happend at least 3 times to him.
He is said to know a thing or two about computers, and he flat out stated it was a software problem. Toyota had his car for more than a week and “couldn’t find a problem”.
Google for yourself, old Steve even made the morning news shows talking about it.
I’m hearing the brakes were still in perfect working order and showed NO SIGN of being burned out by the type of long, continuous use he claims.
If his story was true, we’re practically talking enough heat here to melt an axle!
Dude’s a shyster. Plain and simple.
Exactly.
From one of the sites I searched:
“But Wozniak said he was surprised several months ago when his 2010 Toyota Prius started accelerating on its own — to as much as 97 mph — when he used cruise control to increase the vehicle’s speed. He said he had to tap the brakes to stop the car from accelerating.”
I’ve had that happen at least twice with my Chrysler 300M (except I didn’t let it go to 97). Each time I did exactly what he did and tried it again and it worked fine. It was nothing more than a very minor inconvenience.
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