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by tomcorrigan
4028 days ago
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It was never proven because it never happened. The wikipedia article has much more detail.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9311_Toyota_vehicle_... It is not merely coincidental that all unintended acceleration events occurred in automatic cars. Also, a widespread unintended acceleration problem has not been observed in Toyota cars outside the USA. It's a shame that so many on HN are so swift to condemn Toyota |
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If my car went nuts on acceleration the first thing I'd do would be to jump on the clutch pedal and apply brakes (and possibly set the stick to neutral) but that's because most cars here are manual thus that's what we learn to operate†. Pursuing on that line: once at a stop, cut the ignition and disaster is averted. Start again and you're probably fine due to the reboot. Then drive to nearest Toyota to complain, but since "nothing" (i.e no damage, no injury) really happened, you'll get a shrug and a reflash.
† In a country where people learn only on automatic cars, setting back to neutral is most probably not reflex (if mechanically possible at all)