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		<title>How Do You Stop a Toyota Hybrid? Myth V. Fact</title>
		<description><![CDATA[California Prius owner James Sikes’ wild ride down a San Diego highway has been endlessly dissected. In one week, an army of investigators have uncovered and publicized every salacious and damning detail of the man’s existence here on earth. This sideshow, however, like other distractions in the rapidly evolving Toyota sudden unintended acceleration problem, has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.safetyresearch.net/2010/03/15/how-do-you-stop-a-toyota-hybrid-myth-v-fact/</link>
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		<title>Response to Toyota and Exponent Regarding Dr. David Gilbert’s preliminary report “Toyota Throttle Control Investigation”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The purpose of Dr. David Gilbert’s research study was to contribute to a better understanding of Electronic Throttle Control (ETC) system malfunctions and the failsafe detection capabilities of some Toyota vehicles equipped with ETC.  His research primarily examined the failsafe detection capabilities of electrical circuitry, particularly, at the Accelerator Pedal Position Sensor (APPS) and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.safetyresearch.net/2010/03/08/response-to-toyota-and-exponent/</link>
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		<title>Toyota Unintended Acceleration Complaints Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have completed our latest review of the Toyota unintended acceleration complaint data.  Following are the sources of these complaints:
•	Consumer complaints to NHTSA through February 25, 2010;
•	Toyota-submitted claims to NHTSA investigations into SUA;
•	Incidents reported by media organizations;
•	Consumer contacts made to our firm and other firms who are reporting incidents that they have received through March [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.safetyresearch.net/2010/03/04/toyota-unintended-acceleration-complaints-update-2/</link>
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		<title>The Cracks in Toyota’s Recalls are Showing Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The witness chairs in the House hearing chambers hadn’t even cooled, when Toyota owners who dutifully took their vehicles into the dealership for a pedal fix were reporting more sudden acceleration incidents to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
On February 24, the president of Toyota Motor Corporation, Akio Toyoda, raised his right hand before an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.safetyresearch.net/2010/03/02/the-cracks-in-toyota%e2%80%99s-recalls-are-showing-again/</link>
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		<title>Dimitrios Biller and the Book of Knowledge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Ed Towns, Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform went to town on Toyota, asking five very pointed questions about the automaker’s “Books of Knowledge,” compendiums purportedly containing, among other things, damning information about the automakers acknowledgement of design issues and countermeasures, by component and vehicle. References to these [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.safetyresearch.net/2010/03/01/dimitrios-biller-and-the-book-of-knowledge/</link>
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		<title>Juanita Grossman’s Story: How Do You Slam Into a Building with Both Feet on the Brake? Nobody Knows.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Juanita Grossman was a petite 77-year-old woman who died from the injuries sustained from barreling into a building full-speed in her 2003 Camry in March 2004. When the emergency medical technicians arrived to transport Mrs. Grossman to the hospital they found her with both feet still jammed on the brake pedal.
Mrs. Grossman was still conscious, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.safetyresearch.net/2010/03/01/juanita-grossman%e2%80%99s-story-how-do-you-slam-into-a-building-with-both-feet-on-the-brake-nobody-knows/</link>
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		<title>Toyota Identifies Yet Another Potential Cause of Sudden Acceleration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Safety Research &#38; Strategies letter to Administrator Strickland asks why Toyota it wasn’t recalling its accessory sport pedals. The automaker has identified these aftermarket accessories, which it sells and installs through Toyota dealers, as contributors to unintended acceleration.
Toyota made this startling admission in denying a claim by Michael Teston, an unfortunate Toyota customer from Maaumelle, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.safetyresearch.net/2010/02/26/toyota-identifies-yet-another-potential-cause-of-sudden-acceleration/</link>
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		<title>Our Advocacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the fiery moments in Tuesday’s hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee was Rep. Steven Buyer’s (R-Ind.) prosecutorial turn on SRS founder and President Sean Kane. Buyer attempted to undermine Kane’s testimony, and that of Dr. David Gilbert, whose early research into Toyota’s accelerator pedal position sensor showed that Toyota’s fail-safe strategy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.safetyresearch.net/2010/02/26/our-advocacy/</link>
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		<title>Death and Drive-By-Wire:  New Evidence Shows Early Deaths were Ignored</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have been watching with great interest as NHTSA has suddenly proclaimed 34 deaths in Toyota sudden unintended acceleration incidents, (when nary but one has been officially counted in eight investigations) and Toyota has doubled down on nothing-is-wrong-but-floor-mats-and-sticky-accelerator-pedals. We are pleased to see that NHTSA, under the current administration, is now taking the fatality reports [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.safetyresearch.net/2010/02/17/death-and-drive-by-wire/</link>
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		<title>Toyota Sudden Acceleration:  The Full Report from Safety Research &amp; Strategies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SRS has just released its comprehensive  examination of Toyota SUA. Toyota Sudden Unintended Acceleration covers this continuing safety defect from its roots to the current crisis:
- The National Highway Traffic Safety  Administration&#8217;s unsuccessful efforts to identify all the causes;
- Toyota&#8217;s ineffective and conflicting responses;
- Who knew what and when.
Click on the image below [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.safetyresearch.net/2010/02/05/toyota-sudden-acceleration-the-full-report-from-safety-research-strategies/</link>
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