Toyota great setback
Many of us choose Toyota cars. because of their amazing quality and durability. Unfortunately even the Japan giants, like Toyota make mistakes.
Due to complaints of unintended acceleration caused by the mats sticking underneath the accelerator pedal over 3.8 million cars were recalled to service, to repair failure. The recall involved popular models such as the Toyota Camry, the top-selling passenger car in America, and the Toyota Prius, the best-selling hybrid car. Toyota needed to inform every client of the failure car to contact to the service. Before that every owners should take out the removable floor mat on the driver’s side and not replace it.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which is a government institution responsible for managing traffic and roads in USA said it had received reports of 102 incidents in which the accelerator may have become stuck on the Toyota vehicles involved. It was unclear how many led to crashes but the inquiry was prompted by a highspeed crash in August in California of a Lexus ES350 barrelling out of control. All the passengers (road policeman and his family) died. As the vehicle hit speeds exceeding 193km/h, one of the passengers made a frantic 911 call and said the accelerator was stuck and they couldn’t stop the vehicle, then the car had crashed.
Toyota’s previously recalled over 900 000 vehicles in 2005 to fix a steering issue. The company declined to say how many complaints it had received about the accelerator issue.
Here is a tip what to do if your pedal stick
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And how the problem is fixed ;p
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I think this is quite normal that every company, even the best can do a mistake. Even huge number of tests cannot assure full reliability.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I find it pretty scary that such security issues can occur in cars.
As Maciej Hop said every company makes mistakes. You cannot predict all things that could happen in every day product exploitation. Of course there always is responsibility for a product and a customer. Companies should fix their mistakes as quick as possible.
ReplyDeleteWell such thing could happen to any company but it's good that they decided to solve the issue despite it's very expensive instead of hiding it.
ReplyDeleteEveryone makes mistakes but the company such as Toyota should not happen. Well that repaired his mistake but still a good name brand has been corrupted and a lot of customers to change to another brand. I know that the Nissan Navara was an error with ari bag too late firing which resulted in the deaths of many people during an accident.
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