{"id":571874,"date":"2010-05-20T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/05\/20\/toyota-president-lentz-updates-feds-on-recall-and-safety-progres\/"},"modified":"2010-05-20T12:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T16:40:00","slug":"toyota-president-lentz-updates-feds-on-recall-and-safety-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/571874","title":{"rendered":"Toyota president Lentz updates feds on recall and safety progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Government\/Legal<\/a>, Recalls<\/a>, Safety<\/a>, Toyota<\/a><\/p>\n

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Jim Lentz, President and Chief Operating Officer of Toyota<\/a> in North America has taken some time to update Congress on the company’s progress as the company sallies forth through a mountain of recalls<\/a>. Lentz says that around 3.5 million fixes have been executed so far, including 1.67 million sticky accelerator pedals, 1.62 million floor mats and 118,000 anti-lock brake system program updates. Those figures mark 70 percent of all of the vehicles under the sticking-accelerator recall and Toyota says that it has been performing somewhere in the neighborhood of 120,000 fixes per week on average. <\/p>\n

Lentz also says that his company has complied with mandates from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration<\/a> by bringing a total of 150 Event Data Recorder readout machines to the States. Those are the handy little gizmos that allow researchers to pull and analyze the information gathered pre- and post-crash by Toyota vehicles. The greater number of EDR machines should allow Toyota to respond to any future issues more quickly than in the past.<\/p>\n

According to a published statement, Toyota has reiterated that it all of its new cars and trucks are to be equipped with brake override systems – something that is expected to be mandatory for all automakers within a few short years. Hop the jump to read the transcript of Lentz’s statement before Congress.<\/p>\n

[Source: Toyota | Image: Mark Wilson\/Getty]<\/p>\n

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