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Toyota to pay $1.1B in 'unintended acceleration' case
2012 Dec 26, 6:42am 4,613 views 15 comments
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I haven't had the problem yet - but the floor mat attachments suck.
I wish someone with authority would tell Toyota that they should attach the floor mats with velcro - not those stupid plastic hooks that can't stay put.
Or maybe someone will invent some kind of after market attachment that works more like velcro and is easy for even the owner to install.
zzyzzx
2012 Dec 26, 7:51am
I haven't had the problem yet - but the floor mat attachments suck.
I wish someone with authority would tell Toyota that they should attach the floor mats with velcro - not those stupid plastic hooks that can't stay put.
Or maybe someone will invent some kind of after market attachment that works more like velcro and is easy for even the owner to install.
I agree. Velcros or something that attaches it to the seat would work better.
AverageBear
2012 Dec 28, 8:05pm
The ultimate extortion. I'm surprised Jesse Jackson wasn't in on this....
lostand confused
2012 Dec 28, 10:31pm
The ultimate extortion. I'm surprised Jesse Jackson wasn't in on this....
Wrong thread perhaps? What has Jesse Jackson got to do with Toyota cars spontaneously accelerating by itself on the freeway??
When I got my car - Toyota let me know it was a safety issue and replaced the missing plastic hooks that hold the mat.
However, one is continuously coming out and my mat does end up over there under the gas pedal and/or under the brake pedal.
So I periodically take it out and move it over. But that's not really the safest thing to do. So I will go check into seeing if I can anchor it with velcro loops that hang onto the metal seat bar. The trick is finding something that will actually stick onto the mat. I'll check into it more. I may have to get a whole new mat.
AverageBear
2013 Jan 6, 10:21am
Wrong thread perhaps? What has Jesse Jackson got to do with Toyota cars
spontaneously accelerating by itself on the freeway??
Extortion is the common denominator between Toyota's settlement, and Jesse Jackson. Other than the lame excuse of floor mats, there has been no proof of intended acceleration. Toyota though it would be easier to just throw up the $$ and get it over with.....What, you don't know Jesse Jackson's calling in life? Do you think Coca Cola gave Jesse's half-brother a syrup distributorship because he was a nice guy?..... It will take you two seconds to google "Jesse jackson coca cola"..... And the truth will set you free....
Tenpoundbass
2013 Jan 6, 11:52pm
Carpet has all but been abandoned in homes for a reason, it's nasty nasty stuff. Cars should have come with a washable, hard floor surface a long time ago. Not the black rubberized rough textured stuff that came in trucks in the 80's but something more resilient and easier to clean by brushing and a quick wipe with a cloth.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2012/12/26/toyota-unintended-acceleration-runaway-cars/1792477/
Toyota announced a $1.1 billion settlement Wednesday to resolve lawsuits alleging "unintended acceleration," instances in which throttles jammed open.
As part of the settlement, Toyota will create a fund for additional retrofitting of some cars with technology to make them easier to stop in a panic situation. For models that can't be retrofitted, there will be cash payouts to owners or former owners.
A Toyota spokesman says the company feels good about the settlement for having shown that the vast bulk of unintended acceleration cases were due to floor mats that jammed underneath accelerators, not because of electronic defects in the cars' engine computers. A jammed floor mat won't necessarily make the car go faster, but it can make it hard to stop because it keeps moving even when a foot is off the accelerator.
"We felt we achieved our objective, to defend the safety of the product," says spokesman Mike Michels. That having been done, the settlement is "a business decision and we turn the page on a lot of this."
The settlement comes three years after the fatal crash of a Lexus that killed an off-duty California Highway Patrol officer and his family near San Diego erupted into a full-blown scandal for the automaker. At first, Toyota said only that floor mats could become trapped under acceleration pedals, giving drivers the impression that their cars were trying to run away on them. Then, held a series of worldwide recalls involving millions of cars, including one for potentially defective accelerator assemblies.
Toyota executives were called to congressional hearings about the issue. Last week, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration levied a 17.35 million fine — the maximum currently allowed for a single violation — for waiting too long to report the issue that led to just one of the series of recalls, one involving 2010 Lexus RX 350 and RX 450h crossover SUVs.