Confirming a one-off event is the dickens.
I don’t think Toyota is going to get out of this very cheaply. They can fix their cars all day long. It appears as though the owners and their lawyers are looking for a slice of the “American Dream”.
I forgot to mention I used to work in fuel injection and automotive electronics.
I posted here shortly after this BS started that it wasn’t over.
Eventually there will have to be post mortems done on the software and electronics to try to figure out what changes were made and when because the JAPS will never divulge that information freely.
The gas pedal BS is just a ruse to hide the real problem. All Jap automakers do this all the time with a “look the other way” NHTSA covering their backsides.
LOL
Toyota would see that the throttle position was wide open, and that the brakes were also applied. That's why they initially thought the floormats were jamming the gas pedal.
They will probably find that their throttle positioning sensor, which is just a potentiometer, is going bad on some cars.
Ever have a radio with a scratchy volume knob? You move the knob and it makes a nasty noise? Well, when the "volume knob" is used to sense where the gas pedal is, the same noise can fool the car's computer into thinking the pedal is floored.
I think they have a software glitch. My wife has a 2007 Rav4. It’s not on the recall list, but twice I have experienced a different sort of acceleration problem...lack of acceleration. Each time it happened after a period of light pressure on the accelerator followed by letting completely off the accelerator. When the accelerator was pressed again it did nothing for several seconds then would gradually recover. After the first time I immediately thought it was a computer problem and this was long before the recall started hitting.
“none of the incidents has been confirmed.”
Then until or unless they are, it hasn’t freaking happened.
As several people have said before, it could be electronics. Although I would enjoy watching that foreign invader squirm, I pray more Americans don’t die because of more poor quality by overrated Toyota.