Electronics could be factor in Toyotas' sudden acceleration, executive admits

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-toyota-hearing24-2010feb24,0,2530705.story


**Under relentless questioning from a congressional panel, a top Toyota executive said Tuesday that the automaker hadn't ruled out electronics as a potential cause of sudden acceleration, and conceded that fixing floor mats and sticking gas pedals would "not totally" solve the problem.

James E. Lentz, Toyota's top U.S. sales executive, also apologized for a series of missteps that allowed the sudden acceleration problem to go unchecked for years, ultimately leading Toyota to issue nearly 10 million recall notices and temporarily halt sales of eight models.

Lentz blamed the company's rapid growth in recent years, and acknowledged that it suffered from poor communications, both within its ranks as well as with its customers.

He repeated Toyota's assertion that floor mats and sticky gas pedals were behind the sudden acceleration problem. But he also held out the potential for other causes, the first time a Toyota executive has publicly done so.***

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Mats and shims are so much cheaper.

The info coming to light these last couple of weeks is not pretty.

Combine the myopia of the average consumer, the power of the automotive media and its non-stop lionizing of the Toyota nameplate, and the influence of Consumer Reports (seemingly bought and paid for by Toyota and Honda) and you get a heady concoction called "Won't Make a Damn Bit of Difference in a Year."

they obviously colluded with the Bush Admin to cover all this up, meanwhile the US auto industry was on the decline because Toyota was supposedly so awesome.

Shitbags!