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The Punching Bag Hits Back: Prius Crash Was Driver Error, Toyota Says

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Old Mar 19, 2010 | 02:10 PM
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Few automotive engineers believe in so-called "sudden acceleration". But until recently, there's been no way to determine what a driver what doing when he (or she) swears that he was pressing the brake pedal with all his strength even as the car accelerated. Now, that's changed. Federal investigators say the latest highly publicized incident--in...





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Old Mar 19, 2010 | 03:45 PM
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Happens all the time... We have calls a few time a year where someone drives through the front of a building. Old cars, new cars, american cars, foreign cars... All do the same. hit the gas by accident thinking its the brake, when the car does not slow they hit it harder.
 
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