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Watch the yanks turn on yota after this. The average american still hates anything not red white and blue but the japs begrudgingly won them over with fuel efficient cost effective reliable vehicles.

The litigation fallout will be mega, According to a stateside friend even people who havnt had the problem are already talking to lawyers re putting their family's at risk.

Sucks to be toyota atm.

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why didnt the idiot turn the car off ? XD LOL instead calling 9-1-1 god !

I remember watching one of those "police chase" video shows, and some woman had the same issue in her SUV. She managed to call 911. They cleared the freeway she was on, sent a fleet of squad cars and a helicopter out, boxed the SUV in, and then the lead squad car let the SUV tap it in the back before hitting the brakes to pull both vehicles up. The other 2 cars were there to hold the vehicle steady.

My only thought was, "after they cleared the freeway etc, why didn't they just get the stupid bint to turn the car off and let it coast to a halt instead of causing thousands of dollars in damage and putting lots of peoples' lives at risk?" The freeway was, in typical American style, dead straight so the loss of power steering would have been no biggie.

It's like the whole "space pen vs pencil" thing all over again.

If I was the insurance company, I would have told both the PD and the woman to get f**ked if they tried to submit a claim for the damage when a collision-free solution was right there. Of course then the woman would have sued the manufacturer, since that's what they do in the US

Also, some person in the UK had a similar issue on the motorway over there in a BMW. Luckily he copped what he deserved. BMW even released a statement that was full of common sense. I can understand that its possible the shifter jams into place and so neutral isn't available, but it'd be a tall order to not be able to turn the key.

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Very sad and freaky hearing that 911 call of the family that died, to my understanding the car had a push start ignition system no? So perhaps in the panic they were just pushing the button, not realising you have to hold it down or something? Still, if you had the time to make a phone call, surely you could do something about it. I just can't imagine being in a situation like that and not being able to stop the car. Put it into neutral, or rip the hand brake, or pull some wires out from under the dash or ram it into something from the side to try and slow it down.

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I remember watching one of those "police chase" video shows, and some woman had the same issue in her SUV. She managed to call 911. They cleared the freeway she was on, sent a fleet of squad cars and a helicopter out, boxed the SUV in, and then the lead squad car let the SUV tap it in the back before hitting the brakes to pull both vehicles up. The other 2 cars were there to hold the vehicle steady.

My only thought was, "after they cleared the freeway etc, why didn't they just get the stupid bint to turn the car off and let it coast to a halt instead of causing thousands of dollars in damage and putting lots of peoples' lives at risk?" The freeway was, in typical American style, dead straight so the loss of power steering would have been no biggie.

It's like the whole "space pen vs pencil" thing all over again.

If I was the insurance company, I would have told both the PD and the woman to get f**ked if they tried to submit a claim for the damage when a collision-free solution was right there. Of course then the woman would have sued the manufacturer, since that's what they do in the US

Also, some person in the UK had a similar issue on the motorway over there in a BMW. Luckily he copped what he deserved. BMW even released a statement that was full of common sense. I can understand that its possible the shifter jams into place and so neutral isn't available, but it'd be a tall order to not be able to turn the key.

irony being with those - they are DBW! how the hell do you get a DBW system stuck UNLESS the ECU FCKS UP!

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Last year, Toyota Australia sent my parents a letter telling them to get their Camry checked, coz apparently the model they got had a bug in it where the indicators & headlights will go off randomly...

Never happened yet...

Americans call 911 for anything.

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Or what they could have done is put the gear in Neutral, if it was an auto gear box at least then the car will just cost, then yank the handbrake up.

scando flick instead? see how those stockies hold up..

yea seriously, cant believe they didnt jam it into a wall or something to slow up

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