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Toyota Sudden Acceleration Causes

What Causes Toyota Vehicles to Accelerate Unintentionally?

"We do not understand the basis for Toyota's repeated assertions that it is 'confident' there are no electronic defects contributing to incidents of sudden unintended acceleration," Rep. Henry A. Waxman and Rep. Bart Stupak wrote in a March 5, 2010 letter to Toyota's head U.S. sales executive, James El Lentz.

Rep. Waxman is chairman of the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee. Rep. Stupak is leader of the panel investigating Toyota's unintended acceleration problems.

Controversy Surrounds the Cause of Toyota Sudden Acceleration

The automaker insists the acceleration is caused by floor mats being stuck under the gas pedal or by a sticky accelerator. The House investigating committee wants to look further into the cause of the problem.

Among their suspicions, government investigators say they believe the acceleration may be caused by a manufacturing defect in the vehicles' electronic throttle control systems. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is doing safety research on the problem. Toyota replies that it has conducted research that rules out this cause of the sudden acceleration.

David Gilbert, a professor of automotive technology at Southern Illinois University, said he was able to "defeat" an important safety component of the company's electronic throttle control plan. Toyota refuted Gilbert's claims. The House committee requested a formal report from Toyota about its tests and also asked that Toyota employees who personally knew about the testing be made available for questioning by Congress.

Customers Complain of Problem After Repairs

Federal safety officials from the NHTSA reported on March 4, 2010, the day before the committee released its letter to Toyota, that the government had received complaints from more than 60 people saying the acceleration problem occurred after Toyota repaired their cars. In one such complaint, a 2009 Matrix hit a concrete median at 55 miles per hour 11 days after it was repaired. NHTSA is getting in touch with every individual who makes a new complaint about the problem.

In the United States, Toyota has recalled 2.3 million vehicles. The company has recalled 8 million vehicles from around the world. At least 12 models, some of them built as early as 2004, are being recalled.

Consumer Reports has stopped recommending these models and urges owners of the affected vehicles to have them repaired promptly.

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