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Originally Posted by Chronomaro
If this is similar to the well documented ES350 case, shifting to neutral wouldn't have worked anyway. And the guy was probably intimidated by the idea of turning it off b/c of the loss of power assisted steering or anything else that may turn off.
I'm beginning to believe there are people out there looking for money b/c all the sudden theres a Prius in NY that ran into a stone wall. They confirmed it did have the floormat zip ties. Timing is just a little too convenient for two Prius on the news at once.
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Yes and no. As with the other reported cases, some which were previously being dismissed as simply driver error of some sort are now being looked at as being due to unintended acceleration. There are tens of thousands of accidents each year in the US but they rarely get national (or international) coverage. This one did because it was supposedly fixed to prevent just such an accident. The zip tied floor were supposed to fix the acceleration problem (not that I believed floormats were the problem in the first place).