I'd love to see some statistics on the number of these incidents that have occurred with Toyotas versus other makes as a proportion of the total fleet. These incidents happen all the time, and it almost always turns out that the driver was standing on the accelerator instead of the brake. (Naturally they adamantly deny it - if they'd thought they were pressing the accelerator they would have stopped, after all. Every…
Not sure if you saw the graph hidden in the side: "Complaints rose after Toyota recalled 3.8 million vehicles in November..." -- it makes the same case as you. Let's have an experiment: another manufacturer can institute a fake recall and see what happens. > Naturally they adamantly deny it And, thanks to the nature of human memory, after the first few times they aren't even intentionally lying. (A memory is part rec…
I actually missed it, thanks. But what I'd really like to see are the number of police reports of unintended acceleration by model.
And, thanks to the nature of human memory, after the first few times they aren't even intentionally lying.
What you say about memory is completely correct, but in this particular instance I don't imagine for a second that they were intentionally lying even the first few times.