Some of you old timer, macho types need to be realistic. It is like saying "if the tail fell off the jumbo jet you were piloting over New York City, (like it actually did fall off of a Airbus 320) you, being the great pilot that you are, would just feather the props on your engines and glide into a safe landing in a nearby corn field".
Read the quotes from the LA Times:
Other experts say the numbers may be far higher, pointing to a 2007 NHTSA survey of 600 Lexus owners that found 10% complained they had experienced sudden acceleration.
The agency also has thrown out evidence for other reasons. In 2008, the NHTSA opened a probe of the Toyota Tacoma after a consumer found that the truck had accumulated 32 times as many sudden-acceleration complaints as any other pickup. But Toyota at the time said the complaints stemmed from "media and Internet exposure." The NHTSA closed the case without a finding after it whittled down a list of more than 450 complaints to just 62.
But The Times' examination of consumer complaints and a sampling of reports from Toyota dealers found more than 400 reports of sudden acceleration involving those models. And federal records show that the NHTSA knew about 260 of those cases and another 114 cases identified by Toyota.
Could your wife, mother or daughter do the panic situation driving manuveurs you say are so simple?
I'm surprised to learn that Toyota is so teflon coated with YT mag readers.
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