NHTSA Denies Second Petition To Open Investigation Into Unintended ... - The Consumerist
The agency announced in documents [ PDF ] on Friday that it had denied a June petition [ PDF ] to investigate “low-speed surging” – also known as unintended acceleration – in several Toyota and Lexus vehicles after determining that crashes cited... The petition was based on his interpretation of Event Data Recorder data from a crash his wife experienced in a 2009 Lexus ES350 vehicle and from two other crashes involving a 2010 Toyota Corolla and a 2009 Toyota Camry. “The petitioner’s allegations regarding the three crashes are based upon several misconceptions about the manner in which the EDR samples and records pre-crash data in the ES350, Corolla and Camry vehicles,” NHTSA states. “In each of the three crashes, the vehicles accelerated as the drivers were attempting to park the vehicles. All three accelerations occurred as the vehicles were entering the intended parking spaces and in the times and positions where driver braking should be initiated to safely park the vehicles. Source: consumerist.com
