Safety Research & Strategies’ continuing investigation into Toyota SUA is building momentum as new defect issues emerge from murky, unregulated vehicle electronics. We have also found a document that suggests that Toyota lied to the driver in one of this issue’s most hotly debated incidents. We’ll start with the document. You may recall Rhonda and [...]
Safety Research & Strategies has completed our latest review of Toyota unintended acceleration complaint data, and they confirm that Toyota owners are still reporting SUA incidents – even those who had taken their vehicles in for the recall repairs. Our database consists of incidents from the following sources: – Consumer complaints to NHTSA through January [...]
Forty years after automakers fought off regulations that would have actually tested rollover occupant protection, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has published a final ejection mitigation rule, which favors the installation of bigger and more longer-deploying side airbags and takes a half-step forward on improving side glazing. The rule establishes a new Federal Motor [...]
In 2010, NHTSA levied nearly $50 million in fines against Toyota for flouting the recall regulations in three separate instances. The total represents the largest single fines in the agency’s history – and, (although we haven’t checked) quite possibly more than the agency has ever collected from any and all automakers in 40 years of [...]
