You're not letting the liberal media do your thinking for you, are you?
Here's the real deal:
Toyota has a proprietary computer programming system running their cars that they spent a whole bunch of money on and they don't want their competitors to have it.
Those bastages!
Toyota has spend many large fortunes trying to duplicate the reported unintended acceleration.
Since it has only been reported in an extremely small percentage of Toyota cars on the road (.000025%), and even in them it only reportedly happens rarely, Toyota has not been able to reproduce the results so they haven't been able to determine what is wrong. Millions and million of testing miles, hundreds or thousands of different type of tests, the only negative results they observed were interference with a floor mat and a couple of sticking throttle pedals when they put their cars in a freezer.
They addressed those potential problems and will address any other problems that are discovered. DUH!
We have people on this board who pretend to be experts when it comes to bashing Toyota, but they can't even fix their own CIS system. I'd like to see them find and solve something that apparently happens randomly as rarely as once in every 40 billion miles or so.
oh, you didn't realize that Toyota sold almost 9 million vehicles in 2008? Take a look around.
They sell over 2 million hybrids a year! There are more than 100 million vehicles on the road in the world manufactured by Toyota or one of their subsidiaries.
Of course, being rational and looking at the facts isn't as much fun as knee-jerk reactions and jumping on the bandwagon, and it takes a whole lot more brain power.
Seems most folks don't want to bother with the effort to be reasonable or rational when it comes to this toyota recall BS.
Add to that a whole bunch of ambulance chasing low-lifes thinking this toyota
PR mess will be their personal winning lottery ticket, Toyota has plenty of reasons to be careful with their information.