Toyotas Suddenly Accelerate; Owners Up In Arms

cyclocommuter writes "Some Toyota owners are up in arms as they suspect that accidents have been caused by some kind of glitch in the electronic computer system used in Toyotas that controls the throttle. Refusing to accept the explanation of Toyota and the federal government (it involves the driver's-side floor mat), hundreds of Toyota owners are in rebellion after a series of accidents caused by what they call 'runaway cars.' Four people have died." The article notes: "The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has done six separate investigations of such acceleration surges in Toyotas since 2003 and found no defect in Toyota's electronics."

Comments

Carmakers lie

[loonwings]

BMW insists there's nothing wrong with their electronics even though every single one of their cars indicates 4-6 MPH over true speed.

Re:Carmakers lie

[silentcoder]

And before somebody get's all flamey about that, I KNOW energy never gets lost. Friction does however cause energy conversions and transfers which thermodynamics do not consider or keep track off, so for the purposes of the discussion it's "lost" (well more technically, it's over there on the other side where we're not looking).