Toyota unintended acceleration News

Gov’t Report Accuses NHTSA of Inadequate Recall Monitoring

An investigation has found that the U.S. government’s highway safety agency failed to act quickly on a consumer complaint, and that could have delayed recalls of dangerous Takata airbag inflators. A report by the Transportation Department’s Inspector General also found …

Toyota, GM Settlements Offer Glimpse Into Volkswagen Case

Hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements and fines over unintended acceleration in Toyotas and faulty ignition switches in General Motors’ vehicles provide a glimpse of what consumers and the government might get from Volkswagen for cheating on diesel emissions, …

Auto Safety Agency Declines to Probe Toyota’s Unintended Acceleration

U.S. safety regulators have rejected an electrical engineer’s request to investigate low-speed unintended acceleration in Toyota and Lexus cars. The petition was the latest in a string of claims that Toyota vehicles can accelerate on their own dating to 2009. …

Electrical Engineer Wants Government Probe of Lexus Acceleration

An electrical engineer with a doctorate degree from Stanford University has asked U.S. safety regulators to investigate low-speed unintended acceleration in Toyota and Lexus automobiles. Gopal Raghavan of Thousand Oaks, California, filed a petition with the National Highway Traffic Safety …