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Toyota Attempts to Blame Drivers for Unintended Acceleration Incidents |
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14 July, 2010
Toyota Attempts to Blame Drivers for Unintended Acceleration IncidentsAccording to the results of an internal investigation by Toyota, in "virtuallyall" the cases of unintended acceleration that led to a global recall of more than 8 million vehicles, the motorist pressed the accelerator instead of the brake. Safety regulators for the federal government in the United States are also looking at the cases, which have been blamed on defects including faulty pedals and poorly placed floor mats. The findings in those inquiries have not been released. Mike Michels, a spokesman for Toyota, said the company has reviewed approximately 2,000 reports of unintended acceleration since March, including event-data recorders from vehicles where a crash was involved. Quoted in a report by Bloomberg, Michels said, "There are a variety of causes -- pedal entrapment, sticky pedal, other foreign objects in the car" and "pedal misapplication" in "virtually all" the crashes. No evidence has been found to date of electronic malfunctions. Safety advocates, however, scoff at Toyota's attempt to blame drivers. Joan Claybrook, a former administrator for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and president of Public Citizen, an advocacy group, said, "This is totally ludicrous. They should be looking at the electronics in their cars and everyone knows it." Although the NHTSA would not confirm the report, the Wall Street Journal reported on July 13 that the administration has found data to suggest that the throttles on Toyota vehicles involved in the crashes were open and that the brakes had not been deployed.
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