Toyota Documents Allegedly Reveal Company Able to Recreate Sudden Acceleration Incidents

[Omaha Steve]

Source: ABC NEWS

New Court Filing Claims Toyota's Own Technicians and Dealers Confirmed Cases of 'Runaway Toyotas'

By JOSEPH RHEE

Attorneys suing Toyota claim that internal company documents show that as long as seven years ago the automaker was able to confirm cases of sudden unintended acceleration that did not involve driver error, and as recently as this year recreated sudden acceleration in a Toyota without driver error.

The sudden-acceleration documents are referenced in a revised complaint filed Monday against Toyota in U.S. District Court in Southern California. Forty Toyota owners who claim that cases of sudden unintended acceleration (SUA) have caused them financial harm by reducing the resale values of their cars are suing Toyota in a class-action lawsuit. The documents are among thousands of pages that a federal judge ordered Toyota to turn over to plaintiffs' attorneys.

According to the suit, "Toyota failed to disclose that its own technicians often replicated SUA events without driver error."

In one case that plaintiffs' attorneys told ABC News involves a Corolla tested in 2010 after a driver complained of SUA, the lawsuit quotes an alleged document that says a Toyota technician also experienced SUA when test-driving the car. "After traveling 20-30 feet" from a stoplight, says the document, "the vehicle exhibited a slight acceleration then began to accelerate on its own." According to the document, "engine speed was estimated to have gone from 1500 rpm to 5500 rpm at the time of the occurrence."


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Customers enter the showroom at City Toyota February 3, 2010 in Daly City, California. Internal documents show that Toyota's own technicians and dealers were able to confirm a half dozen cases of sudden unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles, according to attorneys representing 40 Toyota owners in a class-action lawsuit. Collapse
(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

[FiveGoodMen]

1. Gee, and after half the posters here have concluded that all such incidents were scams!

[Uben]

3. The cars are not accelerating.........

......everything else is experiencing "sudden unintended slow down", which only appears to make the Toyotas speed up!

[Soylent Brice]

2. ooooh....

:popcorn:

[Omaha Steve]

4. Already a couple -R's?

I'm at a loss for words on that.

[Kolesar]

5. If I owned a Toyota, I would remove the floormat so that my family could eventually collect damages

...were the car to run away and kill me. Toyota Company would only have their control system to blame.

From the ABC News summary (linked above):

"Toyota said the accident was caused by a wrong-sized, all-weather rubber floor mat in the car that was pushed down and caught the gas pedal, holding it down. (ABC News)"