{"id":266797,"date":"2010-02-02T17:49:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T22:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/?p=50120"},"modified":"2010-02-02T17:49:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T22:49:07","slug":"apple-co-founder-says-toyota-acceleration-issue-related-to-software-glitch-not-pedal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/266797","title":{"rendered":"Apple co-founder says Toyota acceleration issue related to software glitch, not pedal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50121 aligncenter\" title=\"Steve Wozniak\" src=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/steve_wozniak_toyota_prius.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"342\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple Computer and an owner of many Toyota Prius hybrid models said at a conference in San Francisco that Toyota&#8217;s unintended acceleration issues are related to a software glitch and not a bad accelerator pedal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have many models of Prius that got recalled, but I have a new model that didn\u2019t get recalled,\u201d Wozniak said. \u201cThe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wozniak said that he has been trying to contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Toyota for three months but was unable to get anyone to test a software-related issue.<\/p>\n<p>Toyota spokesman John Hanson said that Toyota has found no evidence of an electronic or software problem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/2010\/02\/01\/toyota-announces-plan-to-fix-pedals-on-recalled-vehicles-w-video\/\"><strong><em>Click here to see Toyota&#8217;s explanation of the issue and how they plan on fixing it<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; By: Omar Rana<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20100202\/BUSINESS01\/100202060\/1014\/rss13\">Free Press<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/7X51X1UiiXuMTFsYr2uUqQz9kAQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/7X51X1UiiXuMTFsYr2uUqQz9kAQ\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/7X51X1UiiXuMTFsYr2uUqQz9kAQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/7X51X1UiiXuMTFsYr2uUqQz9kAQ\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=QQ8xiPizX-Q:hyDkZfRzGig:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=QQ8xiPizX-Q:hyDkZfRzGig:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=QQ8xiPizX-Q:hyDkZfRzGig:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=QQ8xiPizX-Q:hyDkZfRzGig:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=QQ8xiPizX-Q:hyDkZfRzGig:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=QQ8xiPizX-Q:hyDkZfRzGig:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=QQ8xiPizX-Q:hyDkZfRzGig:TzevzKxY174\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=TzevzKxY174\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple Computer and an owner of many Toyota Prius hybrid models said at a conference in San Francisco that Toyota&#8217;s unintended acceleration issues are related to a software glitch and not a bad accelerator pedal. \u201cI have many models of Prius that got recalled, but I have a new model [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266797","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}