{"id":263566,"date":"2010-02-02T01:33:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T06:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5462004"},"modified":"2010-02-02T01:33:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T06:33:25","slug":"steve-wozniak-explains-that-faulty-software-caused-his-car-troubles-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/263566","title":{"rendered":"Steve Wozniak Explains That Faulty Software Caused His Car Troubles [Cars]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Uh oh. Steve Woz<\/a> is having some “very scary” trouble with his 2010 Toyota Prius. At a recent event in San Francisco he went off topic and talked about how faulty software is to blame for his car’s accelerator troubles:<\/p>\n

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Toyota has this accelerator problem we’ve all heard about. Well, I have many models of Prius that got recalled, but I have a new model that didn’t get recalled. This new model has an accelerator that goes wild but only under certain conditions of cruise control. And I can repeat it over and over and over again—safely. This is software. It’s not a bad accelerator pedal. It’s very scary, but luckily for me I can hit the brakes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Toyota’s reponse? They’re looking into it:<\/p>\n

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We’re in the business of investigating complaints, assessing problems and finding remedies. After many years of exhaustive testing we have not found any evidence of an electronic [software] problem that would have led to unwanted acceleration.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I hope things get figured out soon, otherwise Woz might have to switch to a Segway as his main mode of transportation. [CNET<\/a> via Jalopnik<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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Uh oh. Steve Woz is having some “very scary” trouble with his 2010 Toyota Prius. At a recent event in San Francisco he went off topic and talked about how faulty software is to blame for his car’s accelerator troubles: Toyota has this accelerator problem we’ve all heard about. Well, I have many models of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive","category-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}