Do you think some people are faking the acceleration accidents for money?

[apples and oranges]

I think I'd be tempted too if I had a Toyota.

[Brickbat]

1. Generally, no.

You'd really be tempted to pretend to accelerate out of control?

[apples and oranges]

7. In a safe place, of course

Actually I'm not sure how I'd pull it off safely but I'm sure it can be done.

[Brickbat]

9. You get yourself right on that and let us all know how it goes.

[TexasObserver]

13. No, because unless they're seriously injured, the case isn't worth much.

Having a wreck doesn't make a case worth money. Getting seriously injured does.

And just how would one "fake it"? Either you're driving with the accelerator all the way down or not. Either you're running full speed with no brakes or not.

Do you really think you'd be able to keep your foot on the accelerator all the way into the bridge abutment?

[Fumesucker]

15. Suicide by cop is not that uncommon..

Suicide by Toyota would bring your family a lot more money..

:tinfoilhat:

[TexasObserver]

17. Suicide by Toyota is a possibility, I suppose.

But even then, it would be hard to keep that accelerator down all the way into the abutment.

Such an accident would not have occurred until the past few weeks, in the time since Toyota admitted they have a problem.

If there's one despondent person in the car, if the accident took place in the past three weeks, and if the person can ride the accelerator all the way into the wall, then it's possible that someone in the past few weeks has used one of the subject cars to end their life. Even then, there is the issue of the drugs in the person's system, their history of depression or threats of suicide, or the technical proof by Toyota that the accelerator didn't stick, but was held down manually.

If one has the appropriate model of Toyota car and is committed to suicide, it's possible they could commit suicide and leave their family a cause of action.

[FarCenter]

25. Most bridge abutments have guard rails

They didn't have guard rails longer ago.

Lots of people committed suicide by ramming their car into an abutment. It was difficult for the insurance companies to prove suicide, rather than an accident, so your life insurance, death benefits, etc, would generally pay off for your family.

[Fumesucker]

2. I'm starting to wonder..

The latest one seems fishy to me..

No proof of course but people are desperate for money right now.

[MichaelHarris]

3. saw a

cheerleader pretend to walk funny once, saw some lady in Alaska pretend to be a governor, I guess anything is possible.

[flyingfysh]

4. I suppose some people do it and then pretend to be dead

[Cassandra]

5. Why is this the second post I've seen asking this sort of question...

from someone with a relatively low post count? Not to discriminate against newbies but when there's a sudden rush towards questions that play into RW memes, I start to wonder.

[apples and oranges]

11. Curious

How is it a RW meme?

[Cassandra]

16. That sort of "unsympathetic...

pro-business, anti-consumer, anti-lawyer, looking for welfare queens under any rock they can think of" question. As though the possibility of a runaway vehicle from a "good" company is so remote that the people suing must be faking.

[MineralMan]

6. How would we know that?

Why do you ask?

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

8. Yes

And right now there's a group of lawyers that is planning a class action lawsuit against Toyota and anyone remotely associated with the company. The members of the class (actual Toyota owners) will most likely get nothing, but the lawyers are going to make out like bandits.

[Pithlet]

10. Uh. No. n/t

[Hepburn]

12. Not hardly...

[Bluebear]

14. 'I think I'd be tempted too' - to commit fraud? Really?

[MineralMan]

18. You'd be tempted? Really?

That doesn't speak well for your ethics, now does it?

[Odin2005]

19. That says a lot more about you than anything else.

:eyes:

[ConcernedCanuk]

20. yup

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[MicaelS]

21. No, I don't..

And if you do, you're guilty of fraud, and should be prosecuted.

[LisaM]

22. No, I don't

and I don't understand why people think others are doing this.

[Pithlet]

23. The crazy things you see posted on the internets.

It doesn't make any sense, does it?

[Brickbat]

26. Once, when I was playing Monopoly with my younger sister and accused her of planning on robbing the

bank while I was in the kitchen, my momma told me`that the kind of person who would think that up and accuse someone else of doing it is the kind of person who would think it up and do it themselves.

[Cassandra]

29. Your Momma was a smart woman!

You don't have to call it projection to know it when you see it.

[Dappleganger]

24. So who's received a giant payout so far?

All I know is there are people who've died, people who've suffered injuries and a man currently in prison.

[Swamp Rat]

27. You'd be tempted to accelerate to 90 mph then smash into a stationary object?

:wow:

[Raschel]

28. WTH? What position do you hold at Toyota?

[anonymous171]

30. No. I'm not a criminal like some people. nt

[HopeHoops]

31. I doubt it. The black box would show the pedal was down. Toyota is keeping them locked up tight.

I bet they know the pedals are NOT depressed and it is a software issue. The black boxes would show that. There are probably a few where the pedals are down, and those are the fake accidents. So how will they handle it? They can't use the data to prove the accidents are fake without revealing that they know it isn't a "stuck pedal" problem.

[raccoon]

32. Yes, there's always somebody who's gonna do something like that. nt

[DainBramaged]

33. First, since you don't understand the difficulties of corporate litigation

and second since you don't understand how long and drawn out the process is when suing a corporation with HUNDREDS of lawyers on staff whose sole purpose is to jerk the litigant around until they simply give up, I think your question is like lettuce, looks good for a day until the edges turn brown and it becomes inedible.

[conscious evolution]

34. I think this is a right wing meme

being propogated in order to:1 get toyota off the hook. 2 play into the riechwing mindset that all consumer lawsuits are frivolous and/or scams being perpretrated by liberal scam artists similar in vein to welfare queens.

Here is a question I wonder about-Is this OP an example of catapulting the propoganda?

[JerseygirlCT]

35. No. nt