A Toyota Prius had an uncontrolled acceleration problem the other day. This is a HUGE stroke of good news for Toyota, if they play it right. The car has been turned over to the manufacturer and everyone in the country has heard by now that they are going to be investigating a known-confirmed recent runaway acceleration problem-car.
IF they come out with an "AHA it was THIS that we can fix on your car!" announcement, they will be golden. If they try to say it was a sticky linkage or some other thing that smells of CYA BS, they will be screwed for a decade or more.
This is pretty obviously a systemic problem with a large variety of recent models and I would put down money that a whole LOT of Japanese electronics engineers are working on coffee and nicotine until they figure out which corroded connector or failed microchip is f-cking up all these cars. The list of common parts has to be pretty short and I'm sure they're hot on the case. Toyota need only appear to no longer be poo-poohing this problem and they could come out of it smelling like a rose.
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