TOYOTA - Floor mats or electronic technology caused unintended acceleartion?

NATIONAL - Toyota is discussing additional fixes for sudden-acceleration problem.  According to The Detroit Free Press (11/18, Gardner) reports, "Federal regulators and Toyota Motor Corp. are discussing whether the automaker needs to fix gas pedals or floor pans in millions of recalled vehicles instead of blaming floor mats, which the automaker had maintained was the source of unintended acceleration cases.

The talks are the result of new evidence from safety tests and allegations in some lawsuits, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which has received more than 400 complaints about acceleration problems that include several fatalities." Toyota "continues to deny that electronic technology was a factor in any reported case of unintended acceleration."

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TOYOTA SUDDEN ACCELERATION - Floor Mats - Not the only problem

NATIONAL - According to the Los Angeles Times, Toyota's problems may extend beyond floor mats. "Auto safety experts believe there may be a bigger problem with Toyota vehicles than simply the floor mats."

They believe "that Toyota's ignition, transmission and braking systems may make it difficult for drivers to combat sudden or unintended accelerations and safely recover, regardless of their cause."

The NHTSA "says it has an open investigation into sudden acceleration events involving Toyota vehicles."

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Toyota/Lexus floor-mat problem may have been known since 2007

NATIONAL - In the "Wheels" blog at the New York Times, Christopher Jensen wrote, "Toyota and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a warning on Tuesday about floor mats possibly jamming accelerators on 3.8 million Toyotas. But the company and the agency have known about the problem for more than two years." A 2007 NHTSA investigation "made it clear the automaker had a problem with the design of the accelerator pedal and the all-weather, rubber floor mats that were an option."

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