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[poppabk]

That was an issue with the embedded software that Toyota has since presumably fixed.

Toyota Unintended Acceleration and the Big Bowl of “Spaghetti” Code | Safety Research & Strategies, Inc.

www.safetyresearch.net

https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman14_toyota_ua_slides.pdf

You presume wrong, there was no massive recall for software updates. But the unintended acceleration stopped anyway. And also it seems the software bug impacted people 60 and over at a massively inflated rate.
This was a media driven panic - and everyone who hit the gas instead of the brake was suddenly a victim. It went away because everyone forgot about it.

 

[Makariel]

You presume wrong, there was no massive recall for software updates. But the unintended acceleration stopped anyway. And also it seems the software bug impacted people 60 and over at a massively inflated rate.
This was a media driven panic - and everyone who hit the gas instead of the brake was suddenly a victim. It went away because everyone forgot about it.

That was years ago, any car sold since 2013 shouldn't have any issues.

 

[poppabk]

That was years ago, any car sold since 2013 shouldn't have any issues.

But in the meantime millions of supposed death trap cars were on the road.
Check out this graph to see how media panic leads to something looking like a massive deal for a brief period of time.

 

[Makariel]

Fair enough, the media coverage did probably lead to tons of Toyota owners to just vent to the NHTSA.

But didn't you say there was no recall, why does your data now mention the recall?

 

[poppabk]

Fair enough, the media coverage did probably lead to tons of Toyota owners to just vent to the NHTSA.

But didn't you say there was no recall, why does your data now mention the recall?

The recall was for mats, which did cause the crash that started it all.

 

[Makariel]

The recall was for mats, which did cause the crash that started it all.

There was a second recall regarding the sticky pedal in 2010, I'll link again:

https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman14_toyota_ua_slides.pdf

They paid out 1.2 billion USD in 2014 for concealing safety defects, not something you'd do if it was just a matter of media frenzy and nothing of substance?

 

[Karma Jawa]

It just fizzled out.

 

[Mochilador]

I believe it's related to mitochondria, if you know what I mean.

 

[DESTROYA]

It burned itself out.