Sentences with phrase «unintended acceleration»

Apparently there have been forty reported incidents of unintended acceleration, eight resulting in collisions and twelve people being injured.

In separate attacks, the hackers were able to induce unintended acceleration.

But what about all these reports of unintended acceleration, where the car just takes off on its own?

The U.S. Department of Transportation released results from an unprecedented ten - month study of potential electronic causes of unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles.

Safety Research and Strategies, based in Rehoboth, Mass., has reportedly implicated the sudden unintended acceleration problem to 2,274 incidents in Toyota vehicles, causing 275 crashes and at least 18 fatalities since 1999.

NHTSA engineers and researchers also tested Toyota vehicles at NHTSA's Vehicle Research and Test Center in East Liberty, Ohio to determine whether there were any additional mechanical causes for unintended acceleration and whether any of the test scenarios developed during the NHTSA - NASA investigation could actually occur in real - world conditions.

[52] Subaru also added an active lane - keeping (keeping the vehicle in the middle of the lane, and applying steering force to keep the vehicle in the lane when unintentionally crossing lane markers) and throttle management (to prevent sudden unintended acceleration in forward and reverse) systems in 2013 with the improved cameras.

Toyota says it talked to Gilbert about this, and showed him how it could not cause unintended acceleration.

That was Toyota «s downfall during its own unintended acceleration crisis between 2002 and 2008.

While NASA and NHTSA have identified no electronic cause of dangerous unintended acceleration incidents in Toyota vehicles or any new mechanical causes beyond sticking pedals and accelerator pedal entrapment, NHTSA is considering taking several new actions as the result of today's findings, including:

Toyota Unintended Acceleration Product Liability Class Action and Catastrophic Injury Claims

users reported rough engine idle and loss of power while driving, together with unintended acceleration at low speeds

In granting Quinlan's third amended complaint, the Circuit Court for the 15th Judicial Circuit, paved the way for evidence of unintended acceleration as a cause of Quinlan's devastating accident to be brought to trial before a jury.

The same team that got Toyota to agree to a $ 1.2 billion penalty for hiding unintended acceleration problems from NHTSA is working on the GM case.

The ongoing National Academy of Sciences study, which will examine unintended acceleration and electronic vehicle controls across the entire automotive industry, will also make recommendations to NHTSA.

In its final report, NASA engineers found no evidence of an electronic defect in Toyota vehicles capable of producing dangerous, high - speed unintended acceleration incidents.

The two mechanical safety defects originally identified by NHTSA remain the only known causes of dangerous unintended acceleration incidents.

March 30, 2010: At the request of Congress, the U.S. DOT announces two studies into unintended acceleration.

Attempting to put its recalls and unintended acceleration imbroglio into the rear - view mirror, Toyota called upon its deep reserves of cash, launching a bonanza of incentive spending in March which, naturally, obligated other carmakers to do the same.

Toyota has not said if this ECU problem is in any way related to the sudden unintended acceleration issue, but it doesn't appear to be, since it has the opposite effect.

«NASA found no evidence that a malfunction in electronics caused large unintended accelerations,» said Michael Kirsch, Principal Engineer at the NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC).

The two mechanical safety defects identified by NHTSA more than a year ago — «sticking» accelerator pedals and a design flaw that enabled accelerator pedals to become trapped by floor mats — remain the only known causes for these kinds of unsafe unintended acceleration incidents.

Unfortunately, the throttle and brake pedals are just a bit too far apart for easy heel - and - toe downshifts — a result, Tada says, of the fallout from Toyota's unintended acceleration debacle earlier this decade.

The Mitsubishi Outlander 4hs and 5hs versions add a full suite of active safety systems including Auto High Beam, adaptive cruise control, forward collision mitigation with pedestrian detection, unintended acceleration mitigation, front and rear parking sensors and lane departure warning.

Last night ABC News ran a piece on how a college professor, Dave Gilbert at Southern Illinois University, artificially caused a short in a Toyota Avalon's throttle pedal that induced full - throttle unintended acceleration.

[4] In October 2013, the first jury to hear evidence about Toyota's source code (from expert witness Michael Barr (software engineer)-RRB- found Toyota liable for the death of a passenger in a September 2007 unintended acceleration collision in Oklahoma.

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Toyota Settles Most Unintended Acceleration Suits for $ 1.1 Billion was the previous entry in this blog.

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In some instances, drivers reported unintended acceleration when stopped at traffic lights, and other times the cars would roll backwards on an incline.

Toyota agreed last week to pay a record $ 1.2 billion criminal penalty for misleading consumers and the government about unintended acceleration in its vehicles.

«In every case we've seen where unintended acceleration was alleged, the vehicle diagnostic logs confirmed the acceleration was due to the driver pressing the accelerator pedal,» a Tesla spokesperson told Jalopnik.

GM's case is being investigated by the same team that got Toyota to agree to a $ 1.2 billion penalty for hiding unintended acceleration problems.

First Toyota with unintended acceleration and now Honda with unintended braking...

NASA engineers found no electronic flaws in Toyota vehicles capable of producing the large throttle openings required to create dangerous high - speed unintended acceleration incidents.

During Congressional hearings on the Toyota recalls in February 2010, Members of Congress asked NHTSA to study whether electronic or software problems in Toyota vehicles could be to blame for unintended acceleration.

Our Bextra lawsuit team has a long history of successful involvement in high profile product liability cases, including our work in Toyota unintended acceleration, Ford Pinto litigation and tire blowouts claims.

Additionally, we were on the nine - member personal injury / wrongful death leadership committee in the multidistrict litigation against Toyota Motor Corp over sudden unintended acceleration.

Toyota has recalled nearly eight million vehicles in the United States for two mechanical safety defects that can cause unintended acceleration: «sticking» accelerator pedals and a design flaw that can cause accelerator pedals to become trapped by floor mats.

In the wake of concerns over unintended acceleration in Toyota and Lexus vehicles, the 2011 LX 570 now comes with a brake override system as standard equipment.

Toyota issued a statement last night that said there might be a «rare» problem related to premature wear in a common gas pedal part that could lead to unintended acceleration.

THIS CAN RESULT IN UNINTENDED ACCELERATION AND A REDUCTION IN BRAKING EFFECTIVENESS, INCREASING THE RISK OF A CRASH.

In laymen's terms, brake trumps accelerator and no one will see the Acadia Denali on the 6 o'clock news with an unintended acceleration story.

Keep on reminding them that unintended acceleration is a real danger.

Remember that big ordeal with Toyota and «unintended acceleration»?