The Punching Bag Hits Back: Prius Crash Was Driver Error, Toyota Says


Few automotive engineers believe in so-called “sudden acceleration”. But until recently, there’s been no way to determine what a driver what doing when he (or she) swears that he was pressing the brake pedal with all his strength even as the car accelerated.

Now, that’s changed. Federal investigators say the latest highly publicized incident–in which a 2005 Toyota Prius in the New York City suburb of Harrison, NY, accelerated across a street and into a stone wall on March 9–appears to be the fault of the driver. Read More…



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