Toyota Launches Throttle Control Investigation
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Toyota announced via its media website that it has launched a new investigation into claims that its electronic throttle control system is the root cause of numerous unintended acceleration complaints that led to two recalls covering more than 6 million vehicles.
Toyota has hired an outside engineering firm in California named Exponent, which has already completed early evaluations of a number of vehicles equipped with this system.
“The interim report, dated February 4, 2010, notes that Exponent was unable to induce unintended acceleration in any of the ETCS-i equipped Toyota and Lexus vehicles it tested. In all cases, the vehicle either behaved normally or entered a fail-safe mode where engine power was significantly reduced or shut off,” Toyota said in the statement.
Toyota calls that test the “first phase” but does not expand on what else will be involved and for how long, despite calling the move a “commitment to increased transparency.”
We’ll update you when we hear more conclusive results. We also think it would make some sense for Toyota to ask the government to take part in these tests as an impartial observer, since the Japanese company is funding them.
