{"id":415359,"date":"2010-03-11T05:16:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T10:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f96\/railroading-toyota-40671\/"},"modified":"2010-03-11T05:16:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T10:16:47","slug":"railroading-toyota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/415359","title":{"rendered":"Railroading Toyota"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>03.10.10 02:16 PM posted by scottspiegel<\/p>\n<p>According to the L.A. Times, federal officials report that there were  34 deaths in the past decade from Toyota vehicles suddenly and  unintentionally accelerating.<\/p>\n<p> Then again, federal officials also report that there were 34 deaths  from people not having health insurance while you were reading the last  sentence.<\/p>\n<p> A sensationalistic crash that killed four occupants of a Lexus last  year in San Diego resulted in nationwide media exposure regarding  supposed Toyota design flaws.* Toyota investigated and found that the  car\u0092s floor mat had become stuck to the accelerator, preventing it from  operating properly.* The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration  backed up Toyota: as outlined in the inspection report, \u0093The right clip  was installed into the grommet of the carpeting but not installed into  the mat.* The left clip was\u0085 not clipped to either the carpet or the  rubber mat\u0085* [T]he bottom edge of the accelerator pedal had melted to  the upper right corner of the mat\u0085* [W]hile it was a Lexus brand mat, it  was not the correct application for the vehicle.\u0094<\/p>\n<p> Nonetheless, the incident led to an accumulation of complaints about  Toyota and high-profile recalls for problems ranging from Sudden  Unintended Acceleration (SUA) to brake problems to faulty steering.* The  federal government butted in by holding hearings last month in which  they grilled Toyota executives about alleged glitches in their vehicles\u0092  electronic throttles; they also demanded to know when Japanese execs  would commit hara-kiri to atone for their sins.<\/p>\n<p> As the Times noted, virtually all of the accident-related deaths  reported this year took place before 2010, some as far back as 20  years.* In other words, motorists are jumping on the bandwagon,  contributing horror stories to a ravenous media, and helping perpetuate  an urban legend.* Or, as one agency spokeswoman diplomatically noted,  \u0093It is normal for NHTSA to receive an increase in consumer complaints  after a recall is announced and the public learns of a safety defect.\u0094 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativeoutpost.com\/railroading_toyota\" ><b> read more &amp;raquo;<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativeoutpost.com\/railroading_toyota\" >http:\/\/www.conservativeoutpost.com\/railroading_toyota<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03.10.10 02:16 PM posted by scottspiegel According to the L.A. Times, federal officials report that there were 34 deaths in the past decade from Toyota vehicles suddenly and unintentionally accelerating. Then again, federal officials also report that there were 34 deaths from people not having health insurance while you were reading the last sentence. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415359","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=415359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}