The leading Japanese automobile manufacturer, Toyota last week admitted that the jamming gas pedal and the prying floor rug in some of its cars were the principal causes of some accidents involving its vehicles.
This was after the automaker finalized an examination into close to 2, 000 cars which were said to have registered abrupt speed ups. So far the firm has made what has been called the most ‘ important recollection’ of the cars that were prone to malfunctions. Preliminary results point to the fact that some of the claims on abrupt speed ups were legitimate. However the firm has not yet revealed the number of mishaps attributable to the twin problem. The countrywide freeway traffic safety organization is in the process of carrying out an independent assessment of close to 2, 900 cases reported to it linking Toyota cars to the abrupt speed ups.
In the meantime, a statement from the firm said that the examination entailed scrutinizing the cars as well as extracting records from their control panels. The jamming gas pedal problem only affected a few cars while the rest had prying floor rugs. The former is said to have caused a single accident unlike the latter. Furthermore the firm’s internal evaluation has been quick to blame driver blunders in the majority of the cases on record. On a good number of occurrences, the drivers have been reportedly claimed to have stepped on the gas pedal as an alternative to the footbrake. The firm calls this a pedal misapplication.
The statement was clear that the electronic acceleration systems were working well unlike previously alleged. Over eight million cars have been shipped back by the firm throughout the globe from the time when the hitches were reported. That was November last year and the number is growing by the day, at time several cars with both problems. Referencehttp://topnews. com. sg/content/23058-toyota-blames-motorists-mishaps