Toyota Prius Unintended Accleration- 2008 Toyota Prius Gas Pedal

VIDEO COMMENT CORRECTION- All Prius are equipped with the over-ride that cancels acceleration when both the gas pedal and brake pedal are pressed.
On March 9, 2010 in California a man named James Sikes called 911 and reported that his '08 Prius was heading down the Intersate at 94 MPH and he couldn't make the car stop. He suggested that he "stood on the brakes," and still nothing. He also suggested that he didn't want to push the power button or shift the car into Neutral because it's unsafe. Is it safer to drive 94 MPH out of control?

I know better than that. Something's up with this story. Over the last couple of months, Toyota's been under fire becuase we don't install the brake system over-ride in all of our cars. James should have paid attention to the news as he would have found that the '08 Prius and all Prius since '08 model year have the brake over-ride softwart from the factory.....James, did you really "stand on the brake pedal?"

I've heard that Mr. Sikes visited his dealership several days before this incident, further it was said that he had a recall letter from Toyota in hand indicating that his Prius was recalled for floor mat entrapment ( http://www.toyota.com/recall/floormat.html ). It's said that his dealer said there was no recall. Was this customer upset at that? Was there some point that he wanted to make? If that's true, the dealership made an error and perhaps this is the feeb-back from that customer. That's my speculation, there's no info that I have to prove that.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Spike-in-Prius-complaints-may-apf-3142640701.ht...

Toyota has posted a response to the ABC News Special Report that was posted earlier this month. In the ABC News video, a professor from an Illionis University, David Gilbert duplicated "unintended accleration," in a Toyota Avalon. He introduced a situation which is probably impossible in the real world and showed that Toyota's ETC system could encounter a situation with wires shoring out and the car acclerating. Based on the video, there's some fancy box needed to duplicate this thing.

See the video here: http://www.autoevolution.com/news/abc-news-videos-unintended-acceleration-vid...

See Toyoat's response here: http://pressroom.toyota.com/pr/tms/electronic-throttle-control-154300.aspx.

What do you think?
Call me or send an email to discuss in person.

Nate Riesen
Jon Lancaster Toyota
608-243-5551
nriesen@jonlancaster.net

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[3333glen]

Good job. Unintended accel. is almost all bunk. Sure, the throttle might, possibly, maybe, stick. However, even cars with three times the hp of a Prius cannot accelerate while brakes are fully applied. Anyone every brake-torqued their car? No car overpowers the brakes. So, what people claim would require simultaneous catastrophic failure of two completely unrelated systems - throttle and brakes. Check out the Audi 5000 bunk from the 1980s. Even the lib feds finally said car was fine.

[meattube4u33]

So when the car is not in ( gone stupid ignore the drivers electronic inputs mode) your saying it works fine? WOW your a fucking idiot. I bet you thought you were the only person who gets it huh? Funny thing is you absolutely DONT!

[sauge1000]

toyota had another recall to for the hybrid highlander and another suv

[GoMetricToday]

Great debunking video! I am glad you did this.  I have a 2010 Prius and have tried all these things and my car just stops. Never a problem.

[GoMetricToday]

Great debunking video! I am glad you did this.

[pinapo]

Buy American.

[proudofnissan]

I agree with you ! When gas gets expensive no gas pedal stuck ! When gas is cheap for some reason pedal gets stuck ! James Sikes is says bull shit! He just wanna get a new car ! Ford payed him money to do that! sikes and ford are bull shit!

[jcgpevideo]

Thanks for the demo. I just bought a used 2008 Prius and your test run was very helpful as I continue to learn more about this machine.

[papichulo404]

@runamoktoo yea cuz i have a garage with a dyno, lift and a hand full of tools plus a friend with no life dat chills with me all day n i get money from trees n dont have mouths to feed, yea car guy? bahahahaha listen to urself u sound stupid i been around cars since i was born buddy dont bring dat shit around me mathafucka ill run circles around ur ass dat dont mean i dont know shit about cars some of us have things to do not enough time but yea if i put a wing n fartcan exhaust im a car guy hah