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During model years 1982–1987, Audi issued a series of recalls of Audi 5000 (the North American name of the Audi 100 at the time) models associated with reported incidents of sudden unintended acceleration linked to six deaths and 700 accidents. [39] At the time, NHTSA was investigating 50 car models from 20 manufacturers for sudden surges of ...
Citing a lack of an "actual defect" in its vehicles, Toyota asked a federal court Tuesday to dismiss lawsuits seeking damages for economic losses caused by the company's recall of millions of cars ...
Automaker Toyota agreed to pay $10 million to settle a lawsuit tied to a fatal August 2009 accident near San Diego that killed four members of the same family, raised concerns about possible ...
In February 2010, National Public Radio obtained the full NHTSA database of 15,000 unintended acceleration complaints over the past decade, and determined that among all manufacturers, Volkswagen had the highest rate of unintended acceleration complaints in 2009 and 2008 (11.5 and 21.6 per 100,000 vehicles respectively), while Suzuki had the ...
Toyota Motor (TM) still doesn't get it. Three months after its executives were hauled before Congress to explain safety and quality inadequacies, the company's chief U.S. sales officer, James ...
Traffic congestion, deaths and injuries from car accidents, air pollution, and global warming are unintended consequences of the invention and large scale adoption of the automobile. Hospital infections are the unexpected side-effect of antibiotic resistance , and even human population growth leading to environmental degradation is the side ...
Hagens Berman: Toyota Agrees to Fund a Settlement of Unintended Acceleration Cases Worth up to $1.4 Billion Attorney representing Toyota owners calls settlement "extraordinarily hard-fought ...
There are several technical articles that discuss the various electronic throttle control defects he testified were linked to unintended acceleration that caused deaths in Toyota Camry vehicles. [6] [7] [8] Earlier in his career, Barr testified as an expert witness in the DirecTV anti-piracy end user litigation, which involved over 25,000 end ...