With Toyota's accelerator problem still far from over, the US Department of Transportation (DoT) announced it is now looking into a possible electric defect as the cause behind the recall. According to a department official talking with Autonews, DoT suspects the problem originates rather from the electronic controls than from the mechanical assembly.
“We're not finished with Toyota and are continuing to review possible defects and monitor the implementation of the recalls," Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in a statement quoted by the source.
Toyota on the other hand says it has no knowledge of a new government investigation regarding the matter.
"After many years of extensive testing, we've found no evidence of an electronic problem that could have contributed to unwanted acceleration," Toyota spokesman John Hanson said in an interview. "We've investigated many times and found no evidence to point to."
As you can see, Hanson's comment does nothing more than to confuse, as he uses the words "many years of extensive testing" in the same sentence with "unwanted acceleration." To remind you, Jim Lentz, Toyota's US boss, claims Toyota only found out about the faulty accelerators in October 2009...
More news regarding the unintended acceleration began surfacing this week, with the latest complaining of an incident being Apple's Steve "Woz" Wozniak. What's worse (and at the same time hints even more to an electronic fault) is that Wozniak owns a Prius, a model nowhere to be found on Toyota's huge recall list.
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