Auto Safety Agency Declines to Probe Toyota's Unintended Acceleration - ClaimsJournal.com
The petition was the latest in a string of claims that Toyota vehicles can accelerate on their own dating to 2009. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in documents posted Friday, said that three crashes cited in the engineer’s... He contended that his 2009 Lexus ES350 sedan surged suddenly in a parking lot while being driven by his wife, crashing into some bushes and smashing the front of the car. He wrote in his petition that she did not press the gas, which was documented by the car’s event data recorder. Raghavan also cited e vent data recorder information in two other crashes involving Toyota vehicles and asked NHTSA to do a more detailed analysis of the cars’ hardware and software. But the agency wrote that his petition was based on “misconceptions” about how the event data recorder samples and records data before a crash. “The crashes are all consistent with pedal misapplications by the driver mistaking the accelerator pedal for the brake when attempting to park the vehicle,” the agency wrote. Raghavan said Friday that the event data recorder shows no movement in the gas pedal until one second before the crash, which he says doesn’t make sense. Source: www.claimsjournal.com
