According to U.S. safety officials, last week's highly publicized Toyota Prius accident in Harrison, New York, that was investigated as a possible case of unintended acceleration was most likely caused by the driver. The Prius owner had had blamed the crash on the vehicle, saying it wouldn't stop.
"'Information retrieved from the vehicle's onboard computer systems indicated there was no application of the brakes and the throttle was fully open," NHTSA said on Thursday in a statement about the New York accident.
The problem: All these greedy, misguided, or careless hacks are helping Toyota appear as a good guy, when in fact Toyota needs to get its act together and figure out the source of their cars' unintended acceleration.
The lesson: Don't fake an accident in a vehicle that has a tattle-tale computer. Buy a classic for fraud like that.
- By Phil Alex
Via: Detroit News
