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Originally Posted by Hepatic
Thats untrue, the 2010 Prius is the only car to be recalled for the brakes, not the whole range with the pedal issues.
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The accelerator and brake problems could be independent problems but with the same root cause of a gremlin in the ECU that's creating or playing a part in the problem. The ECU software would most likely be very highly similar across the company's platforms, it'd just have different engine maps for different vehicles. The accelerator (drive-by-wire) and brake would both he highly tied into ECU control for reasons of fuel mileage and emissions.
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Many makes and dealers would handle this badly, some would probably even deny its their liability.
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Toyota did that for awhile in this. Did you not see the timeline chart a couple pages back?
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Anything like this must be handled openly and honestly...
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Agree.
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...and anyone following their websites or twitter will see just how well they are doing that.
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Yes, they started handling it well right after the media started paying attention. It's been going on for a lot longer than that. The initial factory shutdown for example that I detail in the original post they painted as them deciding to do that, when it was an actually a requirement from the government because they didn't have an engineering solution. The Prius issues only came to light because a super-high up guru at Apple told a public forum in response to the accelerator problems that he was having brake issues with his Prius but couldn't get anyone at Toyota to listen to him.
http://jalopnik.com/5461945/apple-co...-can-duplicate
http://jalopnik.com/5462217/steve-wo...oyota-response
http://jalopnik.com/5462834/toyota-t...ius-for-a-week
http://jalopnik.com/5462889/japanese...brake-problems
http://jalopnik.com/5464094/toyota-a...use-of-the-woz
http://jalopnik.com/5464593/toyota-t...us-in-us-japan