Auto accidents from sudden acceleration is often thought to be the fault of the driver, but not always. Sudden acceleration in Toyotas and Lexus automobiles has been a problem for at least 8 years. Since 2001 more than 1,000 Toyota and Lexus owners have reported that their vehicles suddenly accelerated on their own. When this happened the cars went out of control, crashing into other cars, trees, walls, and even going off the road. Obviously if a child, animal, or another adult was around – the consequences would be much worse than vehicle damage, and the blame would have been placed on the driver! This is what anyone would consider a “product defect“.  To state the obvious – cars aren’t supposed to suddenly accelerate on their own, and when they do – bad things are likely to happen. Although complaints were filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Bush administration officials and appointees chose to dismiss the majority of complaints by owners without investigation. It’s clear now that there have probably been more than 2,000 instances of sudden acceleration since 2001, and a 2007 NHTSA survey found that 10% of Lexus owners complained of this problem, putting the number even higher.

Why would appointees from any political party in control of a governmental safety organization assume that consumers would report a problem if it didn’t exist? Or assume that the incident was always the fault of the driver? What kind of self-righteous, pea-brained industry hack would allow a dangerous defect like this to go uninvestigated for the better part of a decade? FEMA wasn’t the only department of the Federal Government that was put in the hands of wrong minded people.

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