During the years of 2000 through 2009 the ratio of "speed-control" crashes for General Motors was 1 for about every 180,000 vechicles sold; Toyota, on the other hand, had a blood curdling 1 for about every 20,000 vehicles produced.
Therefore, in layman's terms, you are 9 times as likely to crash as a result of speed control in a Toyota than that of a GM vehicle. Although the accusation of the culprit for such lose of control points to electrical problems, the answer is not definite.
If the electrical problems are the source of Toyota's lack of quality, then a detrimental reaction could occur.
Toyota's accusation of the sudden acceleration in hundreds of later model vehicles, not included in the latest recall, are the result of "gas pedals that can stick and bulky floor mats".
If the electronics were to blame, then Toyota would have to reevaluate this statement and possibly include millions more of faulty vehicles into recall.
As a result of this the multiple of danger when riding in a Toyota could jump from 9 times that of General Motors to 15 or 20; making Toyota the most dangerous brand of vehicles on the road today.
It will be interesting to see the future of the once mighty automaker play out amongst this sudden realization of poor design.
Source : The New York Times
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These are some scary stats. I don't drive a Toyota and after reading this I probably never will.
ReplyDeleteWow, I have always felt that toyota has been a pretty safe vehicle. There for a while I thought hat toyota just hit a bump in the road and was going to recover from all of this. This new informations is making me think other wise.
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