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Which was never concluded to be a Toyota software issue. Then there's the pesky fact that a car needs like 1000HP to overpower the brakes on something like a m
by mywittyname 6y ago
Which was never concluded to be a Toyota software issue.
Then there's the pesky fact that a car needs like 1000HP to overpower the brakes on something like a modern Camry. So if people were actually pressing a brake pedal, which is physically connected to the hydraulic brake system, the car will stop.
Yeah, they were successfully sued over it, but all that means is that they were probably responsible based on the information the jury was allowed to hear. And I believe much of the culpability came down to the fact that the floormats did actually move into the pedal box for that era Toyota (mine did it all the time, even post-recall).
- mimixco 6y agoIf I remember correctly, they found many bugs in the Toyota software which could cause unintended acceleration and also could cause braking to be ignored. This report has some info: https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman14_toyota_ua_slides.pdf https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman14_toyota_ua_... PS: I had a Prius during this time. Even after selling it, without experiencing any acceleration issues, Toyota wrote me a $2k check to agree to never sue them.