Washington Post (February 8)
2011/ 02/ 10 by jd in Global News
The results of the National Highway Safety Traffic Administration into sudden acceleration found no link to a supposed software flaw in the Toyota Prius. “In short, human error, mechanical errors that Toyota repaired and a dose of politically induced hysteria were to blame.” The hearings by Congress lacked restraint and placed Toyota officials “in an impossible situation, since blaming Toyota customers – though this was true in many cases – would have been a public relations disaster.”