03-04-2010, 07:26 PM
First step is to come up with a reproducible test case, so that you can prove that a fix works. That's the hard part, my guess is that there are multiple problems and scenarios, so no fix will cover everything. I'm guessing that causes can be mechanical, electronic, or driver error.
One case that I haven't heard much more about was a few months ago when someone was able to get their car with a stuck wide open throttle (and no floor mats) to the dealer with the engine still running. Toyota should have gone over that car with a microscope to understand why it was doing that.
Even with all this news about fixes that Toyota has, I still haven't seen an official recall notice for my 2007 Prius. The only thing I got was a few months ago saying that I should take out the floor mats, and that the official recall was still being worked on.
One case that I haven't heard much more about was a few months ago when someone was able to get their car with a stuck wide open throttle (and no floor mats) to the dealer with the engine still running. Toyota should have gone over that car with a microscope to understand why it was doing that.
Even with all this news about fixes that Toyota has, I still haven't seen an official recall notice for my 2007 Prius. The only thing I got was a few months ago saying that I should take out the floor mats, and that the official recall was still being worked on.