On this subject, my mom told me today that her Camry decided to accelerate on its own at a stop light. She was quick to hit the brakes before she could have rear ended someone. Guess where i'm going today.
I called the dealership and they said the official recall is not gonna be out till 2 or 3 weeks from now. Until then, all they can do is inspect it. yay!
what year is your moms camary? That is BS that they basically know most toyotas since 2004 or possibly earlier have the same faulty components in them. I would take it to them and make them give your mom a loaner car (from the list of non-affected vehicles) until the recall comes out. This is a very serious issue.
teh prius was not suppose to be on teh recall list for teh gas pedal...
i really don't think there's any i$$ue wit teh gas pedals, i think it's a conspiracy to bring toyota down... ja ja
It's no conspiracy, Toyota has become big and bloated and is now suffering the same problems that GM and Ford faced when they were the biggest guys out there.
It's no conspiracy, Toyota has become big and bloated and is now suffering the same problems that GM and Ford faced when they were the biggest guys out there.
Too much publicity isn't always a good thing, whether it be good or bad...
watch teh youtube vids proving that teh prius will stop even if teh gas pedal is held down and brakes at teh same time...
watch and read teh old man's report on tv and paper. at one part he said something like his foot was under teh gas pedal? WTF!
there are too many long hills on teh 8 to slow down a prius...
i'm thinking this guy just wants teh attention and maybe monies...
it's a conspiracy of teh american auto market and maybe with teh help of teh govt to fuk wit toyota... just my 2 cents.
hrm, interesting. It could be a fraud attempt. I would not put it past someone to try and take advantage of the situation. The prius in this story however was brought into the dealership because of sudden acceleration, and the dealer turned them away.
Those videos however only prove that the car will do what you tell it to do when the computer is not malfunctioning.
The problem's Toyota is experiencing deal with the accelerator sticking electronically, not physically. There is a good chance that the input for the accelerator would not turn off like in that video demonstration if the computer was controlling the event instead of the driver.
and teh cop who died b/c of a faulty gas pedal? i call BS on that too. a bigger BS. they xpect us to believe a cop who is trained that didn't know how to stop his vechile? hmmm?
and teh cop who died b/c of a faulty gas pedal? i call BS on that too. a bigger BS. they xpect us to believe a cop who is trained that didn't know how to stop his vechile? hmmm?
That was in a Lexus which I understand you cannot shift into neutral while the motor is going, unlike that prius.
I think the fact that it WAS a cop is more proof then BS, of anyone out there he would be the most qualified to stop the car due to his training, so if he was not able to there must of been something very very wrong. Also the lexus that crashed had been reported to the dealership that the previous users experienced weird acceleration at times. The owner of my company knew that family, their kids all played soccer together. I really do not believe that could of been anything BUT an ECU error of some sort.
Some of these cars now are controlled sooo much by the ECU or other computers, if there is a mess up in the programming, or a virus it could affect the computer of a car. Look at GM vehicles with OnStar, they know the second your airbag goes off and can unlock the car doors from a tech center somewhere.
If it is not faulty engineering it could very well be sabotage, but that sounds a little bit conspiracy theory to me. Who knows, industrial sabotage does happen.
teh sabotage part is only a joke.
like i said, there is/are something fuk'd with toyota cars and that needs to get it fixed asap... BUT.
but these dam people/media are not making it easier on toyota by lying. now toyota has to deal with these idiots when they have a something else more important to focus on...
As to why he didn't put the car in neutral and coast to a stop, Sikes says he panicked, and was afraid that would "flip the car."
"I've since found out that's not possible, but I had no idea," Sikes says. "Hopefully, I helped save five to 10 lives because people are now finding out" how to put a moving Prius into neutral.
Dude, give me your Keys and your DL, go get a bus pass you are not qualified to be behind the wheel of a car, EVER!
notice there's hard a scartch for a car that went over 100mph...
and notice teh road bends, there is no way that prius or pretty much any stock car could make it doing over 100mph. it would have slammed so hard and do some tuck and rolls... ja ja
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