Toyota says don't believe the critic (work of David W. Gilbert, an automotive technology professor at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale). Toyota is rebutting claims that electronics are to blame for runaway cars, but it's beginning to look more and more like we shouldn't believe Toyota.
It is aleged that a new Toyota Prius when out of control at speeds up to 90 miles per hour as a California Highway Patrol cruiser acted as the brake on a California freeway. The Toyota Prius driver said: ‘It (the gas pedal) jumped and then it just stuck there’ -
Are things out of control at Toyota? One gets the feeling they are either ignorant of the problem, or trying desperately to "cover-up" something. Perhaps there's an oversized floor mat covering up the executive offices in Nagoya.
In recent months, Toyota has recalled more than 8 million vehicles worldwide due to acceleration issues.
Last August, off-duty CHP Officer Mark Saylor was killed along with his wife, her brother and the Saylors' 13-year-old daughter after the accelerator of the Lexus ES350 they were in got stuck as they drove on State Route 125 in La Mesa.
The Toyota-manufactured loaner vehicle slammed into the back of a sport utility vehicle at Mission Gorge Road in Santee at about 100 mph, careened off the freeway, hit an embankment, overturned and burst into flames. All four family members died at the scene.
Sheriff's investigators determined that the deadly crash was caused by a sticking gas pedal trapped by a wrong-sized floor mat.
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