[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by Snaps

I'm suprised most car enthusiasts have yet to see the article/investigation about this, along with most normal people.

Toyota's have had 'black boxes' of a sort for a few years now, and Toyota, or someone, has looked into these and found the data they record. It shows that 99% of the reported 'accidental acceleration' issues are driver error. ie. drivers pressing the accelerator instead of the brake. The boxes showed a normal pedal position, and then an increase up to (usually) 100% on throttle, with absolutely no increase of the braking pedal before an accident... The only reason you probably don't know about it is because of the American media pulling the wool over people's eyes. They don't want people to know about this as it shows they're wrong. They would rather put the blame on toyota.

The same thing happened with Audi in the 1990's, a few people spoke out about an acceleration problem, and everyone else followed suit, when those people didn't really have a problem in the first place.

This just leaves Toyota stuck... they can't exactly blame the crap drivers, how would that make Toyota look? So they say they are looking for a fix to a problem that isn't there, and making it look like they are doing something by shaving people's pedals down, etc. when there really isn't anything to fix. That has been Toyota's policy for ages, they figure people would rather know if something is wrong with their vehicle and have them bring it in to get fixed than do what so many other manufacturers do and don't tell anyone about it until they bring their car in with the problem...

nice comment... but what's that gotta do w Turbo or NA?