事情的转机来自加州圣地亚哥一个高速公路巡警的悲剧。开着丰田高档车型“雷克萨斯”的下班巡警,在生前最后一刻,打了911急救电话。下面是他最后的电话录音:“我们开的是‘雷克萨斯’,在125号公路向北开。车的油门卡住了…情况很糟糕…刹不住车…我们快到十字路口了...祈祷吧…”(“We’re in a Lexus ... we’re going north on 125 and our accelerator is stuck ... we’re in trouble ... there’s no brakes ... we’re approaching the intersection ... hold on ... hold on and pray ... pray ...” )紧接着911接线员听到的是一声巨响。这辆车在撞了另一辆车后,冲出护栏,翻滚后起火,车中4人全部死亡。这个悲剧遭媒体曝光后,成了压断丰田这个巨型骆驼的最后一根稻草。
It's too late for me since I bought Toyota Camry in 2008. I never drive Japan's car during I'm living US almost 16 years. But, my relative and friends they all have Japan's car, every body said that car should save a lot money on gas. I was driving the Volvo and Lincon before. NOW, I really don't like to have Japan's car even this news not came out.
LoveFromSyria 发表评论于
"We are in a Lexus"????????? Lexus is not Toyota!?? So confused!
hoard-stocks 发表评论于
My Ford had the same problem in 2005-2006 !!! Luckily the brake was still working,..., something wrong with the quality of gas, or I was targeted as a bad guy since I critized USA madly online in that period when I was student? who knows ... there was a solid subtance formed at the edge of throttle valve blocking its closing. Once the valve opened, it opened to its maximum ... really wierd. The garage technician didn't know either why that lump of substance was weld there...
"Off-duty highway patrol officer Mark Saylor, his wife, daughter, and brother-in-law died on Mission Gorge Road after placing this frantic 911 call. Though some suggest Saylor could have avoided the crash by shifting into neutral (or perhaps even by turning off the ignition), investigators determined he did neither. Instead, Saylor incorrectly asserted to the 911 operator that the “breaks are gone,” when in fact they required an inordinate amount of pressure to depress because the accelerator was jammed."
I'm not saying Toyota is not guilty. The officer simply didn't do the right thing. Throttle control and transmission gear selector are separately controlled.
x723 发表评论于
You can do what you want to do here . Can you do some way in China ?
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So cold-hearted and insulting the victims. Are you a Janpeses? You should listen to the "public apology" from TOYOTA (CEO).
Hope you are not the next , because no one will have pity on you. Good luck.