Toyota Posits Fix for Accelerator Pedal Entrapment Crash Problem

Ah the sweet smell of contrition. Toyota announced remedies for a recurrent problem associated with floor mats in their vehicles causing their accelerators to stick and thereby causing high-speed catastrophic crashes.

Shocker! Toyota of course initially denied this problem existed in Lexus and Toyota vehicles depite the National Highway Transportation Safety Administrations findings to the contrary.

Toyota has announced remedies involving a rolling recall of vehicles wherein the accelerator pedals will be modified and in some instances the vehicle floor itself, to eliminate the risk of accelerator pedal entrapment. http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/

For some vehicles brake override system will also be employed. For more see: http://www.maryland-law.com/blog/toyota-announces-recall-of-four-million-vehicles-due-to-defective-gas-pedals.cfm