By rfidler, March 16 at 6:16 pm #

All I needed to hear was the moron driver telling the 911 operator he was too busy to put the car in neutral——- but not to busy to be TALKING ON THE FUCKING PHONE!!!!!

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I’m with you rfidler, and I didn’t even know the guy had told the 911 operator that he was too busy to put the car in neutral. According to the account, the operator told him which button to push, and that it would have taken 3 seconds to slow the damn thing down. Later on, they had him on the news talking about how afraid he was, and how he’d never drive that car again. Makes me wonder if he was doing an updated version of a ‘slip and fall’.

All I needed to hear was the moron driver telling the 911 operator he was too busy to put the car in neutral——- but not to busy to be TALKING ON THE FUCKING PHONE!!!!!

By robert puglia, March 15 at 9:48 pm #
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it should be noted that toyota have proffered serial different causes for unwanted acceleration(“sticking pedals”)which other prii have experienced, recalled or not. least plausibly, they tried to put the blame on floormats. significant inconsistencies abound in their shifting stories. toyota management are not a reliable source of information.

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Well Robert, I don’t know. He also said that the self-diagnostic system showed evidence of numerous rapidly repeated on and off applications of the accelerator and the brake pedal. Now might that not muck things up a bit? Or do you think he’s just lying about that? Or maybe it’s the software in the self-diagnostic system?

I guess it’s easy enough to say that the mgmt. is lying, (since most corporate mgrs do). But I still have memories of the military and the FAA looking for a kid allegedly stuck in a runaway balloon that supposedly took off from a back yard in Colorado. That tale landed the teller in jail.

I’d say the Toyota management are at least as reliable as the driver. People do bizarre things these days. It’s just as likely that the guy freaked. I didn’t get the impression that they were trying to call the guy a liar, but rather to report the facts of the checks that they’ve done so far. And all he said was that the FACTS of this particular investigation so far,pointed to some inconsistencies in the driver’s account.

Meantime, I remember being somewhat impressed when the CEO of Toyota fell on his sword a few weeks ago and admitted that in the crunch to remain competitive, they had possibly sacrificed quality control, which along with safety, had always been the higher priority…not sales.

Meantime, it’s just after 3:10am here, and about 15 minutes ago, (as I was leaning out of my upstairs window smoking a cigarette) I saw a person fly down the street on a skateboard. He had to be doing 25 mph at least. THEN, just now, I started hearing voices through bullhorns (the police?) shouting at somebody to get off the freeway. (the 10 runs just behind our little semi-gated community here in midtown LA.) Nope. I’m not lying, but I think I will go to bed now.

Drama drama everywhere.