{"id":549183,"date":"2010-04-16T01:14:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T05:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusgear.com\/archives\/39305"},"modified":"2010-04-16T01:14:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T05:14:12","slug":"house-chairman-requests-information-from-toyota-ahead-of-may-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/549183","title":{"rendered":"House chairman requests information from Toyota ahead of May hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ahead of a May 6 Congressional hearing on Capitol Hill, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman has asked Toyota and its consultant partner Exponent to hand over any findings that could potentially link faulty electronics with the company\u2019s unintended acceleration problems.<br \/><span><\/span><br \/>Waxman asked for \u201cany documents, including reports, analyses or other communications, describing the results of Exponent&#8217;s work for Toyota related to unintended acceleration or electronic throttle-control systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Toyota maintains that its vehicle electronics are not to blame for the company\u2019s unintended acceleration woes.  According to the Japanese automaker, Exponent\u2019s preliminary findings support its stance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">To ensure <span id=\"more-39305\"><\/span> all aspects of Toyota\u2019s electronics are being closely scrutinized, Waxman\u2019s letter also requested evidence of the scope of Exponent\u2019s investigation.  Toyota sales head Jim Lentz and Exponent CEO Paul Johnson have been asked to testify at the May hearing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span><b>References<\/b><br \/>1. &#8216;U.S. House committee&#8230;&#8217; view<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"rss2wordpress_signature\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leftlanenews.com\/\">Leftlane<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of a May 6 Congressional hearing on Capitol Hill, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman has asked Toyota and its consultant partner Exponent to hand over any findings that could potentially link faulty electronics with the company\u2019s unintended acceleration problems.Waxman asked for \u201cany documents, including reports, analyses or other communications, describing the [&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-549183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549183","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=549183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}