State Farm says it alerted feds to Toyota problems in 2007

[john]

Looks like even an insurance company could tell there's something
wrong.

Insurance giant State Farm alerted U.S. safety regulators in late 2007
that it was seeing an uptick in reports of sudden-unintended
acceleration incidents in Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles, a company
spokesman said today.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration officials confirmed
that they had been notified by State Farm but were already
investigating reports of unintended acceleration from drivers of
Toyota and Lexus vehicles.

From The Detroit News:
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20100209/AUTO01/2090384/1148/auto01/State-Farm-says-it-alerted-feds-to-Toyota-problems-in-2007#ixzz0f6VcMqBM

[Hachiroku ハチロク]

Post by john
Insurance giant State Farm alerted U.S. safety regulators in late 2007
that it was seeing an uptick in reports of sudden-unintended acceleration
incidents in Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles, a company spokesman said today.

Yeah? And?

Maybe they did. Then the NHTSA has to collect data, compile data,
determine if it was operator error, question operators or survivors, etc
etc etc.

Sometimes it can take 5-7 years before they start to see a trend. Tpypta
realized it in three.

numbnutz.

[ransley]

Post by Hachiroku ハチロク

Post by john
Insurance giant State Farm alerted U.S. safety regulators in late 2007
that it was seeing an uptick in reports of sudden-unintended acceleration
incidents in Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles, a company spokesman said today.

Yeah? And?
Maybe they did. Then the NHTSA has to collect data, compile data,
determine if it was operator error, question operators or survivors, etc
etc etc.
Sometimes it can take 5-7 years before they start to see a trend. Tpypta
realized it in three.
numbnutz.

Wake up, they had complaints from 2003 and maybe earlier, well thats
about right as your thinking goes, 7 years, then a high percentage
would be off the road by then. The bastards should be fined billions.

[ACAR]

Post by john
Looks like even an insurance company could tell there's something
wrong.
Insurance giant State Farm alerted U.S. safety regulators in late 2007

so they claim.
anyone here use State Farm? anyone hear from State Farm not to buy a
Toyota before now? I'll bet State Farm carefully examined all Toyota
crashes to make sure none of the defective cars was covered by State
Farm 'cause if I were an owner and my insurance company knew about a
defect and didn't tell me, I'd sure be pissed.