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3 Lessons for Green Cars From Toyota on Money, Money, Money — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:01:11 +0000

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Earth2Tech Week In Review — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:49:09 +0000

[...] How Toyota’s Prius Troubles Will Shape the Green Car Market: Not too long ago, Toyota reigned as the seemingly untouchable hybrid leader. That dominance — in terms of both market share (50 percent of hybrids sold in the U.S.) and mindshare (no alt-fuel vehicle on the market is better known or more widely recognized than the Toyota Prius) — means that as the Prius image takes a beating, other models across the spectrum of green cars will also get bruised. [...]

By: kelly

kelly — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:59:01 +0000

Folks so fear Toyota/hybrids, that when Toyota just offered GM-like incentives - sales went up 50%.

All anti-lock brake, ESC stability systems, throttle-by-wire (~ all new car models) potentially face/expose these problems.

Gas can exceed $4/gallon any month, like 21 months ago, and the same pundits will expand how hybrids were always the only real choice.

By: Ilan Ben Menachem

Ilan Ben Menachem — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:17:13 +0000

Toyota is going for everyone car user day by day becoz its going reasonable. there are so many part of solution, need to increase transparency of vehicle safety data.

By: Eideard

Eideard — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:23:42 +0000

Consumers - quite reasonably - are always looking for a break. Rather than blindly responding to fearmongering.

The Toyota flap might hamper sales to the unconvinced. But, services evaluating phone traffic for Toyota report that the media tales of problems with the Prius consistently result in a spike in inquiries from potential consumers figuring they could then wheedle a better deal from Toyota.

By: FYI

FYI — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:34:50 +0000

Video: Toyota demonstrates safe hybrid vehicle stopping techniques
03/12/2010, 3:27 AM By Mark Kleis
http://www.leftlanenews.com/video-toyota-demonstrates-safe-hybrid-vehicle-stopping-techniques.html

Toyota now has produced a high quality video that clearly demonstrates how to stop any Toyota hybrid vehicle in the event of unintended acceleration, following their distribution of a low budget video, apparently created by a Toyota car salesman earlier this week.

This new video demonstrates how a Toyota hybrid – any model – should function under normal conditions if the vehicle is accelerating out of control.

This video demonstrates that the recent incident in San Diego was either the result of abnormal function of the vehicle’s computer, or complete operator error on the part of the driver, James Sikes.

Haven’t found that software glitch, Toyota? Keep trying
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-oew-cummings12-2010mar12,0,2595172.story

David M. Cummings, executive vice president of the Santa Barbara-based Kelly Technology Group, spent nine years as a consultant for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he worked on the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft.

Washington Post
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/10/AR2010031003705.html?sub=AR

Playing the blame game with runaway Toyotas
Thursday, March 11, 2010 A20
Frank Ahrens quotes an auto industry consultant who claims the problem with runaway Toyotas almost always lies with drivers who step on the wrong pedal ["Why it's so hard for Toyota to find out what's wrong," Sunday Business, March 7]. I find this assertion infuriating. I know exactly where my foot was on the two occasions that my 2004 Prius accelerated out of control on the Beltway last year — firmly on the brake until the accelerator popped back up from its unnaturally depressed position. The dealership blamed “floor mats,” but I was using small carpet squares that didn’t reach the pedal.

The condescending assumption that drivers don’t know what they are talking about when they report problems like this is why I must now mentally rehearse how to put my car into neutral every time I venture out on the highway.

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