News tagged with 'Unintended Acceleration'

More troubles for Toyota as 11,500 vehicles, some exported from Japan to the U.S., are recalled for problems with the computerized steering.

Toyota projects more than $3 billion in profit for this fiscal year while repairs are rolling along. Still outstanding is the question about glitches in the computer software that drives the car and may be behind deadly unintended accelerations.

Toyota is temporarily halting sales of the Lexus GX460 after Consumer Reports found it was unstable, slid and had the potential to roll.

Toyota's internal documents show that the company delayed in issuing a recall, instead blaming drivers and thick floor mats, while a company VP urged, "We have to come clean." A second fine is pending.

General Motors will install a brake override system in all newly manufactured vehicles, even though the auto maker has not had a problem with unintended acceleration like Toyota.

Toyota is facing a $16.4 million civil fine for withholding information about the sticky pedal problem from U.S. regulators for four months, while it continued selling cars.

The death toll from runaway accelerating Toyotas is now at 102, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.

Toyota and the Department of Transportation engineers have been unable to replicate the conditions that caused a Prius to runaway on a San Diego freeway last Monday. Now the focus is on the Prius' owner.

Another runaway Toyota, this time a Camry, is reported by a Florida couple that led to a crash. They are suing Toyota and the dealership which had allegedly "fixed" the vehicle.

An out-of-control Prius was racing at 94 mph when a CHP officer on loudspeaker helped the driver get control of the vehicle. No one was hurt. The Prius was part of a recall last November.

When Rhonda Smith spoke to lawmakers last week about her Toyota that nearly took her life in October 2006, many didn't believe her story. Now she answers her critics with assurances there was nothing in it for her to testify. She just wants dangerous Toyotas off the road.

Toyota repeated assertions of last week's public airing - that electronics do not play a part in sudden acceleration. One VP even went so far as to suggest that driver error might be causing the uncontrolled acceleration crashes that has led to a massive recall worldwide of Toyotas.

The Toyota defense may be used to reopen the case of a runaway Toyota Camry that resulted in the deaths of three people and an eight year prison term for the driver, convicted of vehicular manslaughter.

Mr. Toyoda and his COO, testifying before a Congressional committee about the troubled Toyota Motor Company, appeared to lean toward a mechanical explaination for accelerating Toyotas, not electrical.

Mr. Akio Toyoda is facing lawmakers in Washington D.C. to answer questions about the problematic company he inherited from his grandfather in July. He apologized to families who have been affected and promised changes are ahead.