Toyota’s ‘sudden acceleration’ problem may be driver error
Posted: March 13, 2010 Filed under: Cars & traffic | Tags: Megan McArdle, sudden acceleration, The Atlantic, toyota 1 CommentThere are lots of Toyotas in Melbourne and we even have a factory that builds them. It is therefore of great interest to note that Toyota’s mysterious problems in the US with sudden acceleration, wonky electronics and floor mats, may actually be the result of driver error. Megan McArdle writes today in The Atlantic, How Real are the Defects in Toyota’s Cars?, that it may be older, shorter and immigrant drivers that made the errors, not Toyota’s engineers.
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