Toyota Acceleration - User Error

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Article: Driver error found in some Toyota acceleration cases - USATODAY.com

I wonder how many people blamed Toyota rather than admit driver error? I crashed my Toyota on the interstate in December or January (can't remember), but it was clearly my fault. My accelerator jammed after the crash, and I about took off the wrong direction down the interstate. Thankfully, I was fully aware and was able to turn the car off and shove the car into park. The year of my Toyota is prior to all these issues though.

Toyota spokesman John Hanson said the automaker hadn't seen NHTSA's data, but "certainly, pedal misapplication" is among issues the company has discovered in its own investigations of more than 3,000 reports of unintended acceleration.

It isn't yet clear how many of the thousands of incidents involve pedal misapplication because NHTSA hasn't analyzed them all. And however many, it will not clear Toyota of already known vehicle problems that created acceleration risks.

The automaker agrees it had a problem with ill-fitting floor mats that could trap poorly designed gas pedals. It also has acknowledged that gas pedals in some vehicles can stick open.

Toyota has recalled 7.7 million vehicles in the U.S. for those problems.
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This is precisely why I drive with two feet. i am only kidding :rofl:
 
I saw an article somewhere about it being a computer issue, not accelator jam, foot mats, etc....

here.....

Driven by his own curiosity, Gilbert in January found he could manipulate the electronics in a Toyota Avalon to re-create the acceleration without triggering any trouble codes in the vehicle's computer. Such codes send the vehicle's computer into a fail-safe mode that allows the brake to override the gas.

Gilbert said he reported his "startling discovery" to Toyota, and the automaker "listened attentively." But Gilbert said he never heard back from the company, which has steadfastly maintained the problems were mechanical, not electronic.
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