Woman shares her harrowing experience with her Lexus

A Lexus owner who experienced an episode of high-speed unintended acceleration in her ES350. The car revved out of control shortly after she entered the highway, she said, and neither the brakes nor shifting the car into neutral or reverse brought it to a stop.

"After six miles, God intervened," she said, and she was able to bring the car to a stop.

Representatives of both Toyota and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration told her that what she had experienced could not have happened, she said.

"I was labeled a destructive lying idiot," she said.

The system used on Toyota relies on two separate sensors connected to the gas pedal and another pair connected to the throttle valve itself.

In order for the system to work each sensor in a pair has to match. If they don't match in the proper way, an on-board computer immediately senses that as a problem and the engine power is immediately reduced to idle or, in some situations, it's shut off altogether.

Gilbert said that he overrode that safety feature, which would have allowed faulty pedal signals to be sent to the engine with no problem being detected by the car's on-board computer.

Toyota has raised questions about Gilbert's tests and its application to real-world circumstances. The carmaker has invited Gilbert to demonstrate the problem for them after Toyota's own engineers were unable to replicate the situation in an earlier test.

The problem could, theoretically, be caused by a manufacturing defect in the sensors, Gilbert said.

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[JELH]

She is a destructive lying bitch.

[BlackToyotaTacoma]

She had to read her lie. What a bitch.

[mohawk5010]

She put the car in Neutral and Reverse and it was still in gear? BULL. There is no documented evidence of Toyotas having defective or malfunctioning Neutral or Reverse.

[iLolek10]

why Toyota's problems shows up just in the time, when US car factories had economical problems ?

Chrystler is sold for Fiat !

is that the answer ?

[formula112967]

Now if she bought an American made car, like lets just say, A FUCK*N CORVETTE,

she wouldn't have had these problems.

[jrtorres1337]

Its called neutral, obviously your lieing and never put it into neutral, your hands should never touch a gear lever and should stick to touching kitchen utensils.

Or why not turn the key? Easy enough

Plus if americans werent so lazy and afraid of manual transmissions, she could have forced the engine to slow down by putting it in a lower gear, or stalling, or putting the gear stick into neutral, or just depressing the clutch.

[Transfusions]

Why do you react so hysteric as if I said American(or u)are liar?(I didn't even say she is a fuking liar)

Or Is that woman your mum?(if yes feel sorry for you)

so How do you know that I read only Japanese paper? (Though I speak English and anther languages).

I see you afraid so much about something young girl.

[rawdawg440]

Yea shes not lying. In America we have freedom in the media. The media is allowed to report whatever news they want. In Japan the government controls the media. Hmmm I wonder why they reported there was nothing wrong with the car? TOYOTA SUCKS DICK, END OF STORY BITCH!