May be Toyota latest woes hard-wired?
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On top of mounting criticism of mechanical glitches in its cars, Toyota faces a much more multifaceted set of issues associated to car electronics, based on consumer complaints and psychoanalysis by an electronics engineer recognizable with Toyota’s history of strangle control.
This comes as political problems continual to pile up for the company, in the wake of its recall of 6.5 million vehicles–including recent Camrys, Corollas, and RAV4s–because of potential acceleration troubles and its subsequent halt of production on the affected models.
2010 Prius comes with what Toyota calls Electronic Throttle Control System with intelligence (ETCS-i)
The U.S. Department of Transportation upped the pressure on Toyota at what time the agency’s head, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, told owners of recalled vehicles to stop driving them during comments he made Wednesday earlier than a
House appropriations hearing. He afterward backed away from this statement and said he meant only that Toyota owners who are apprehensive about their cars should take them to dealerships.
As well as in Japan on Wednesday, establishment told Toyota to investigate reports of faulty brakes on its high-profile Prius hybrid car as federal security regulators in the U.S. began a broader investigation into Toyota’s electronic systems.
Wozniak’s claim, valid or not, underscores questions regarding Toyota’s electronic systems raised by less-famous consumers. In a well-documented case comprehensive in a petition to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA), Jordan Ziprin claims that, in 2005, while backing out of a driveway near his home in Phoenix, his 2002 Toyota Camry XLE suddenly accelerated and slammed into a utility box.
Toyota, at least publicly, is saying that it has found no evidence of electronic problems. “We have not found any evidence of an electronic problem so as to would have led to unnecessary acceleration,” said John Hanson, national manager of environmental safety and quality in Toyota’s communications group. “That doesn’t mean that we’ve written it off. We are uncompromisingly investigating any claims.”
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Toyota executives are currently testifying before Congress about the safety issues that have led to the recall of millions of vehicles. They insist that “We are confident that no problems exist with the electronic throttle control system in our vehicles.”
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