Toyota Prius Speeds Out of Control on SoCal FWY

The post you quoted was a toyota speaker to toyota suppliers. Does it sound contrite to you? What internal conversations with toyota employees have you been privy to other than what toyota wants you to be privy to.

I do appreciate your opinion and will try to be more objective in the future.

 

Speaking of Audi:
My 2007 audi had a sudden acceleration while braking this winter while i was wearing my snowboots at the wheel.
Fortunately for Audi it did not make the news.

 

This is UNBELIEVABLE.... I just learned that the driver of the Prius on the San Diego Freeway is related to the woman who found a piece of a finger in Wendy's chili. We all know where SHE is now. Doing nine years!!! Perhaps this schmuck is not too far behind.

 

Seriously?

 

yes and he is the balloon boy's grandfather.

 

Based on everything I've learned about Mr. Sikes, you had me going for three seconds!

 

Out of prison, for nearly a year.

 

My humor and writing style can sound too serious at times. I apologize if anyone took me seriously. The point I am trying to make is that this guy is full of sh*t!!!! If Toyota was smart they'd attempt to refute his claim of his Prius being out of control. I think Toyota should hire the BEST PR firm for damage control.

One good thing has come out of this at least for me. Usually when driving in NYC driver's rarely give way to anyone. Now when someone sees me in their rear view mirror (the Prius is easily recognizable) they seem to move left/right quite quickly!!!!

 

lol.

 

Also i doubt about this news and i do not believe it.

 

I disagree. They come clean when they take ownership of their problems, specifically admit fault, quit debating about problems (this also legitimizes the problems), and propose specific and believable fixes. They have done none of this yet. Taking control of a situation is the only way to create results.

 

Toyota sure has not done that.

 

This misses the crux of the issue. If there is no real problem, there is nothing to fix. Even if there is a clear problem, and Toyota fixes it, people will still step on the wrong pedal and do other stupid things. Every crash will look like a Toyota failure. Anything Toyota doesn't do will look like a cover-up.

Now that public has this image securely planted in their collective minds, it won't be easy for Toyota to shake it. Perhaps Toyota could have got out in front of this at the beginning, but that option is long gone. Every option is now bad, but some are worse than others.

Toyota will survive this, and life will go on, but it will do some damage.

Tom

 

Mr. Kane's company had an answer- a brake throttle override. Too bad that isn't an answer any longer.

 

All Prius already have brake throttle override. It is a standard feature.

Tom

 

Survive? ... not according to malorn . . . Toyota is DOOMED ... DOOMED! he'll tell ya . . .



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In the 1980s my parents owned 3 Audis. then they had that certain problem and Audis were nowhere to be found. I doubt this could happen to Toyota, they are too dominant,still.

 

Sikes (siko) simply held the brakes on just enough to heat them up and cause the smell of brakes. One foot on the brakes lightly and one foot on the gas pedal just enough to go about 90. If he had really pushed on the brakes and brake assist worked he would have been able to stop other wise he would have really cooked the brakes into flames and huge clouds of smoke! I hope they throw him jail. A floored Prius is capable of speeds in excess of 110mph. He obviously kept the gas pedal back a little to make this all look like a floored vehicle but not to the point of him being really in jeopardy of crashing. He obviously was angry about the whole recall thing and hoped to cash in or get rid of his car.

 

I assert that I was able to keep one hand on the wheel and put the other hand down to grab the accelerator, while maintaining eye contact on the road ahead. I'm neither skinny nor an agile teenager. This is in response to the people who calimed there was NFW anyone would be able to reach down to where their right foot was while they were seated in the driving position.

If I thought my life depended on it I could certainly do it while driving down a busy freeway.

What have you tried doing?

 

Yes, but when Mr. Sikes put both feet on the brake with his butt off the seat, the override didn't happen. At least that's what he said he did.