{"id":264369,"date":"2010-02-02T08:57:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T13:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/?p=35829"},"modified":"2010-02-02T08:57:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T13:57:10","slug":"toyota-says-it%e2%80%99s-a-friction-problem-or-is-it-something-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/264369","title":{"rendered":"Toyota says it\u2019s a friction problem, or is it something else???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-35832\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/toyota-says-its-a-friction-problem-or-is-it-something-else\/steveprius-3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35832\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/steveprius2-499x382.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"382\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-35830\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/toyota-says-its-a-friction-problem-or-is-it-something-else\/steveprius\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who drives a Toyota Prius, recently told a group of people of an unexpected and unintentional acceleration problem he experienced. Remember the Prius is not currently under recall. This makes Wozniak believe that, &#8220;This is software. It&#8217;s not a bad accelerator pedal.&#8221;\u00a0 Now Wozniak is not the first person to bring up the idea of the possible software problem. Two former administrators for the NHTSA, Ricardo Martinez and Joan Claybrook, believe that there is some electronic glitch causing all of Toyota&#8217;s problems. Many other independent saftey experts are also saying the same things. But its Wozniak&#8217;s\u00a0expertise in software and programming that\u00a0packs\u00a0the \u00a0biggest punch\u00a0in this claim.\u00a0The computer guru has also\u00a0stated that he can duplicate the acceleration problem over and over at a certain speed while in cruise control.\u00a0Its important to take into account that cars\u00a0in the Toyota fleet\u00a0 have a gas pedal that isn&#8217;t actually connected to the engine mechanically, but the engine actually relies on software input from the gas pedal to relay acceleration information. This makes the possibility of an electrical or\u00a0computer error much more\u00a0likely.\u00a0So whether Toyota is trying to cover some bigger problem by doing a quick and easy &#8220;fix&#8221;\u00a0we will soon find out, but for the time being, it makes us think.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/iTKWQdI3tbf8LsjsB_tm3ITElJ8\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/iTKWQdI3tbf8LsjsB_tm3ITElJ8\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/iTKWQdI3tbf8LsjsB_tm3ITElJ8\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/iTKWQdI3tbf8LsjsB_tm3ITElJ8\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who drives a Toyota Prius, recently told a group of people of an unexpected and unintentional acceleration problem he experienced. Remember the Prius is not currently under recall. This makes Wozniak believe that, &#8220;This is software. It&#8217;s not a bad accelerator pedal.&#8221;\u00a0 Now Wozniak is not the first person to bring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264369","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\/2616"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}