On the heels of Toyota’s Sudden Acceleration Recalls, Toyota Motor Corp. now is under scrutiny for stopping matters on the Prius, Toyotas popular hybrid car. According to Ray LaHood, Transportation Secretary, Transportation officials will start an inquiry after reports were received that the Japanese administration has broached an investigation in brake error charges, according to the Japan Automobile Dealers Association.
Contained in a complaint registered with National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA): My 2010 Toyota Prius has a serious braking problem, the car lunges forward after (I) apply my brakes over a bumpy surface. This is very unexpected and luckily no one was in front of me otherwise I would have hit them. This already happened several times, took my car to the dealer and no solution, I dont know what to do with a brand new (car) like this. There are many complaints with similar descriptions around problems when encountering even minor bumps and potholes with the 2010 Prius.
This ongoing issue is on top of Toyotas recall of 3,800,000 autos in November 2009 to doctor accelerator pedals and software system to address what has been described as sudden acceleration problems, which was followed by the latest sudden acceleration recall on January 21, 2010 when Toyota announced a recall for 2,300,000 autos. Contained in a USA article titled “100 Toyota drivers filed complaints before recall”, there were more than 100 complaints filed before Toyota made the recall announcement.
Lately, Ray LaHood provided assertions which question Toyotas action on the sudden acceleration subject. According to Secretary LaHood, “Today, Toyota is apparently taking the right steps to address these safety issues. Unfortunately it took much effort to get to this point.” In the midst of a Congressional hearing on February 3rd, the Transportation Secretary pronounced that drivers of recalled Toyotas should halt driving the autos until the autos are restored.
And recently Toyota written documents, which Toyota is straining to retain from the populace may suggest a potential cover up. A one-time Toyota attorney, Dimitrios Biller, as a section of his legal action against Toyota has proclaimed that Toyota has hid safety evidence involving rollover lawsuits. In Dec., Biller notified Toyota that he was determined to furnish a full copy of the documents he possessed to the L.A. Times. Toyota replied by calling for a CA arbitrator to bar Mr. Biller from sending the documents to anyone. If Toyota possesses naught to cover up in the rollover lawsuits and has provided another attorney the same documents that Biller holds, as it has proposed, what does it have to hide?
These most recent series of results, the Prius stopping trouble in addition to the former attorney insinuating that the automaker obscured papers, coupled with the Transportation Secretarys notices concerning Toyotas treatment of the sudden acceleration recall are fetching a bunch of scrutiny on Toyota, questioning the car makers credibility. Will the car maker be able to regenerate it?