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Originally Posted by Nippom
Yes, my last car has been a Toyota, way better than the VW's BTW.
Here's an article about the Toyota scare that lays it to rest;
An inconvenient truth about Toyota - The Globe and Mail
quote; ...the problem with the Toyotas was the driver – not some strange, hidden mechanical or electronic gremlin. Sophisticated independent studies have proven there was nothing wrong with the vehicles, that the brakes worked and throttles did not stick open on their own.
and... "Not a single case of unintended acceleration was found."
and... “After conducting the most exacting study of a motor vehicle electronic control system ever performed by a government agency, NASA did not find that the ETC electronics are a likely cause of large throttle openings in Toyota vehicles as described in consumer complaints,” NASA said in its conclusions.
The NHTSA report concluded that in cases where allegations were made that the brakes were ineffective or the incident began with brake application, “the most likely cause of the acceleration was actually pedal misapplication” – i.e., the driver was pushing on the accelerator, not the brake.
Both NASA and the NHTSA noted that “publicity surrounding NHTSA’s investigations, related recalls, and congressional hearings was the major contributor to the timing and volume of complaints.”
You can read the rest at the above link (which also goes to a page 2). |
How could you come to any conclusion especially since Toyotas accelerators work without a cable? They use ETC.
Electronic throttle control (ETC) is an automobile technology which severs the mechanical link between the accelerator pedal and the throttle.
An ETC-equipped vehicle has no such cable. Instead, the electronic control unit (ECU) determines the required throttle position by calculations from data measured by other sensors such as an accelerator pedal position sensor, engine speed sensor, vehicle speed sensor etc.
It will be sometime before Toyota is cleared of this, maybe never. In April 2011 Toyota was forced to turn over the source code for its electronic throttle control, something it was fighting for over a year. Access to the electronic throttle source code is a key victory for attorneys representing Toyota sudden acceleration plaintiffs.