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"Edmunds.com, the automotive buyers' research site, says it's going to offer $1 million to whoever can figure out once and for all what's causing unintended acceleration in Toyota and other vehicles and can solve the problem. Not only will be you be rich, but you're richer in knowing you may have saved scores of lives."
Man, Toyota is never going to get away from this stigma! Do you still have faith in this company?
Not me! My next car is going to be a Buick. (
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I have not been following this story that closely, but I've heard it described as a "computer problem."
So would manual transmissions (if they even still sell them) not have this kind of problem?
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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.
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so no fix will cover everything
No one fix will cover everything, sure.
This assumes it can be proved that there are multiple causes, and are there one or two versions of the unintended acceleration.
I don't see a stigma, Audi lived through it, and I thought there was one other car manufacturer with a similar problem.
Regardless, even if this never happened, I'd probably not be getting a Toyota as they don't make a model that *really* attracts me.
Right now, the new LaCrosse looks really good, though maybe I'll put some 24" dubs, you know, so it's not so much an Old Man's Car.
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My car has a mechanical throttle - a cable from the pedal to the fuel injector. The computer only adjusts the timing. Why did Toyota replace this technology on all their cars? I understand the need to introduce a computer for the hybrid cars, but this whole problem seems too complicated to me.
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Deflate the tires.
I'll take my money in small unmarked bills.
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Don't buy Dana linkage parts.
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it's definitely a real (or)deal... our Toyota minivan will accelerate to way too fast, all too frequently upon resuming the cruise control... say we're cruising at 65mph under cruise control, and hit a patch of traffic, or need to slow to 50 mph for a transition ramp, and either hit the brakes, or pull the little lever back to disengage the cruise control w/o turning it off; then upon the road straightening or traffic clearing, hitting the resume cruise control position on the lever... the fun begins... we never know whether or not the car will creep back to 65mph, or climb all the way to 90mph, if we let it. just gotta pay attention. the car has been in the shop several times, to no avail, but hopefully next time Toyota will get it right.... it "feels" like a computer *related* problem; what else could it be? a dirty sensor? ultimately, the computer has to have a hand in it. I hope somebody figures it out and wins the mil.
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