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Originally Posted by legion
And in this case, Toyota appears to be covering up a bug in their drive-by-wire software by blaming it on a supplier.
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My understanding was that Toyota has not blamed the supplier, and that Toyota admitted the parts were properly built to Toyota's design.
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America (TEMA) has also been working closely with our pedal supplier CTS on a revised design that effectively remedies the problem. These pedals are now in full production at CTS to support Toyota’s needs. At the same time, we continue to work with CTS to test effective pedal modifications for existing vehicles on the road that will be available to our customers as quickly as possible.
I read this as an admission that the design needs to be changed, if CTS were at fault this paragraph would have referred to manufacturing procedures or QA changes implemented to prevent a re-occurrence. But, there still may be a software issue on top of the CTS hardware issue.
It is interesting that Toyota appears to be working with their supplier, when the 'typical' automotive response would have been a lawsuit against the supplier.