{"id":359352,"date":"2010-02-24T16:01:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T21:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5479478"},"modified":"2010-02-24T16:01:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T21:01:15","slug":"toyota-president-absolutely-confident-that-electronics-arent-cause-of-acceleration-problems-automotive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/359352","title":{"rendered":"Toyota President &quot;Absolutely Confident&quot; That Electronics Aren&#8217;t Cause of Acceleration Problems [Automotive]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5462806\/a-frustrated-steve-woz-talks-about-his-toyota-prius-on-video\">heard Steve Woz<\/a> talk about the <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5462004\/steve-wozniak-explains-that-faulty-software-caused-his-car-troubles\">acceleration issue<\/a> with his Prius and our friends at Jalopnik have been covering Toyota&#8217;s whole <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/tag\/beigebitesback\/\">recall mess<\/a>. The entire time software and electronics were blamed for the issues, but now Toyota President Akio Toyoda is telling the House oversight committee that &#8220;he is &#8220;absolutely confident&#8221; that the electronics of Toyota&#8217;s gas pedal systems are not the source&#8221; of these problems.<\/p>\n<p>Guess it must be the floor mats again. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2010\/02\/24\/national\/w120033S95.DTL&#038;tsp=1#ixzz0gUNYMCTa\">SF Gate<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=44ee5b27d217d0236fc679c8e123628d&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=44ee5b27d217d0236fc679c8e123628d&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=Zr-RDy3oK_w:vl3zjaSDigo:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=Zr-RDy3oK_w:vl3zjaSDigo:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=Zr-RDy3oK_w:vl3zjaSDigo:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=Zr-RDy3oK_w:vl3zjaSDigo:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=Zr-RDy3oK_w:vl3zjaSDigo:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=Zr-RDy3oK_w:vl3zjaSDigo:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/Zr-RDy3oK_w\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve heard Steve Woz talk about the acceleration issue with his Prius and our friends at Jalopnik have been covering Toyota&#8217;s whole recall mess. The entire time software and electronics were blamed for the issues, but now Toyota President Akio Toyoda is telling the House oversight committee that &#8220;he is &#8220;absolutely confident&#8221; that the electronics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359352","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=359352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}