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Report: Toyota admits black box bug can give false speed readings

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Filed under: Recalls , Safety , Technology , Toyota Takeshi Uchiyamada, Toyota executive vice president in charge of research and development, has confirmed that a software glitch has caused the company’s event data recorder readers to misinterpret speeds during accidents. According to Automotive News , the executive admits that his company had previously underscored the fact that it couldn’t say whether or not there was a problem with the black boxes themselves. The software bug in the readers came to light during the manufacturer’s investigation into instances of unintended acceleration . Even so, Uchiyamda (above, left) says that there’s no reason to doubt the rest of the readings from the EDRs

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Daily U-Turn: What you missed on 8.20.10

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First Drive: 2011 Audi R8 V10 Spyder The Audi R8 V10 Spyder is just too easy. Too easy to drive. Too easy to look at. And too easy to love.

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Toyota ‘victims’ urge passage of Motor Vehicle Safety Act

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Filed under: Government/Legal , Safety , Technology , Toyota No one can accuse our legislative process of being particularly swift. Even in the midst of one of the most productive congressional sessions in years, it takes plenty of hemming and hawing to push a bill all the way from committee to law. Unfortunately, a group of individuals affected by the recent rash of runaway Toyota vehicles must not have gotten that memo. A group of family members of those who died in instances of unintended acceleration recently met with members of congress to discuss the obstacles facing the Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 2010.

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Toyota president Lentz updates feds on recall and safety progress

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Filed under: Government/Legal , Recalls , Safety , Toyota Jim Lentz, President and Chief Operating Officer of Toyota in North America has taken some time to update Congress on the company’s progress as the company sallies forth through a mountain of recalls . Lentz says that around 3.5 million fixes have been executed so far, including 1.67 million sticky accelerator pedals, 1.62 million floor mats and 118,000 anti-lock brake system program updates. Those figures mark 70 percent of all of the vehicles under the sticking-accelerator recall and Toyota says that it has been performing somewhere in the neighborhood of 120,000 fixes per week on average. Lentz also says that his company has complied with mandates from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration by bringing a total of 150 Event Data Recorder readout machines to the States

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USA Today investigates how automotive ‘black boxes’ can help recreate accidents

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Filed under: Safety , Toyota Long before shows like CSI misled the public about how long a DNA test takes and introduced the mythical world of “zoom and enhance,” airplane black boxes were making people think you could minutely recreate an air disaster if you could just get the box. Not so. Turns out that quite a few cars sold in the U.S. have black boxes as well, with the same limitations: you can retrieve a certain set of data from them, but its quality and usefulness varies.

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