Early US Tests Find No Toyota Flaw in Electronics

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Early US Tests Find No Toyota Flaw in Electronics

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August 10, 2010: NY Times: Early U.S. Tests Find No Toyota Flaw in Electronics
The government’s investigation into complaints of sudden acceleration of Toyota vehicles has found no evidence of flawed electronics in 58 of the vehicles that crashed, federal regulators said Tuesday. They also found only one instance in which an accelerator pedal became trapped under a floor mat, and none in which a pedal became stuck or sprang back too slowly.
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Sept 6, 2010: Washington Post Editorial: Toyota's acceleration problem could be customer-based
THE RESULTS are not definitive, but a preliminary report on sudden acceleration from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has some good news for Toyota Motor Corp. Of the 58 data recorders analyzed by the agency and the company, 35 showed that the brake pedal was not depressed at the time of the crash. Partial braking was involved in 14 other cases. Drivers were hitting the gas pedal instead of the brake. In short, electronics was not the issue. Human error was.
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