Stupid round eyes! Is Floormats!
Rhonda Smith’s testimony to Congress today;
“I thought I’d have to put it into the guard rail before I hurt anyone else. I called my husband with the blue tooth. I knew (she cries) he could not help me but I wanted to hear his voice. After 6 miles God intervened. As the car came very slowly to a stop I pulled it to the left median with the car stopped and both feet on the brake the motor still reved up and down at 35 mph and would not shut off. Finally at 33 mph I was able to turn the engine off.
“After my husband arrived there was nothing unusual with the floormats, the dash lights and radio were still on. the wrecker driver asked my hsubnd to put my car in neutral so he could use the winch. My husband was able to shift into neutral, but when he did that, the car tried to start itself. The wrecker driver attested to this. After ten days Toyota did not contact us. We received an analysis stating “if properly maintained the brakes will always override the accelerator.” Well that’s a lie!
I’ve been warning for years that Toyota have been selling shitbox death traps in Central America – now it’s come here.
Remember, Tom Clancy predicted the war between the US and Japan would start over their shitbox cars.
Category: Foreign Policy
Toyo, Toyo, Toyo!!!!
Here’s a worse headache for Toyota-a man in Minnesota in jail since 2006 because the cops didn’t believe his Toyota Camry wouldn’t stop.
What’s the going rate in a lawsuit to get 5 years of your life back?
http://kstp.com/news/stories/s1428594.shtml?cat=1
“I called my husband with the blue tooth.”
This made 0 sense to me for at least a minute.
I’ve heard of blue hair, but that’s ridiculous.
Dave, I can’t remember all the details, but a few years ago a cop had his case overturned because his police van did not stop properly when the emergency lights were on. Nobody believed him. I can only imagine what it would be like to go to prison with the knowledge that you are completely innocent.
This is a huge problem, but that doesn’t mean Toyotas won’t outperform in certain areas (as they have for some time) in the future.
Dave, yeah, I saw that on the news last night. Totally sucks that no one believed him. Hopefully he can get out on the new evidence.
Interesting, Car and Driver took a Camry and ran their own test. They floored the accelerator at highway speeds, and the brakes were able to stop the car easily with normal brake operation. Here is a quote from their story.
“With the Camry’s throttle pinned while going 70 mph, the brakes easily overcame all 268 horsepower straining against them and stopped the car in 190 feet—that’s a foot shorter than the performance of a Ford Taurus without any gas-pedal problems and just 16 feet longer than with the Camry’s throttle closed. From 100 mph, the stopping-distance differential was 88 feet—noticeable to be sure, but the car still slowed enthusiastically enough to impart a feeling of confidence. We also tried one go-for-broke run at 120 mph, and, even then, the car quickly decelerated to about 10 mph before the brakes got excessively hot and the car refused to decelerate any further.” For the whole thing got to http://www.caranddriver.com/features/09q4/how_to_deal_with_unintended_acceleration-tech_dept
Makes you wonder
Hipster Douchbag had a great off the wall (what else?) take on this at David Bellavia’s blog the other day too.
http://davidbellavia.com/2010/hipster-douchebag-toy-yoda-recall-exceeds-five-million/
Yeah, but the timeline is wrong. We were supposed to get the plane flying into the capitol AFTER the shitbox cars, not before. And BO is no Jack Ryan.
I think that should be “Stupid Loundeyes, Is Froolmats.”