Tests fail to duplicate acceleration problem in Prius

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Originally Posted by tk-421

Here's a thing that bugs me about Toyota:



They seem to be dead-on sure that it's a mechanical problem, and yet they have failed to replicate results consistently enough. So how can they be so confident about it?

Shouldn't they continue to look into the electronic side of things as well, just to be on the safe side? Or just to shut the naysayers up?

If what Mr. Sykes says isn't true, they should make a much bigger effort to prove him wrong. They should bore us with explanations as to why it is impossible. They should make a campaign for driver safety and print an extra few pages on the user's manual.

Instead, we get a two-hour test, a signed piece of paper, and $400 worth of mods (MSRP: $2500) for Mr. Sykes to enjoy, along with his bonus random death threat calls to his house. And people keep dying over this, and Toyota keeps getting terrible publicity over it, and they deserve every bit of it, just on the basis on how it has been handled.

ugh..

a)there is a mechanical problem with pedals
b)sykes is lying
c)the two are unrelated and are not mutually exclusive, as you seem to think

Your so hyped up by the media you aren't even mad about the right(wrong) thing