Mrs Smith said Lexus, so Lexus is toast!

[mcbrue]

In her tearfull testimony before Congress, Mrs Smith said her Lexus
accelerated to 100 mph and it took several miles for it to shut down
so she could get it stopped in the left lane pull off. She did what
you or I would do with two footed braking, down shifting, keys off.
The enging kept varying up and down after it was pulled off. It finaly
shut down. DID SHE MEAN LEXUS ???? Or was that a mispeak ???

And I am only reporting what I heard all over CNN today so stop with
the stupid criticism of the witness already. There have been enough
other good, common folks with this problem that it is real. And the
Japanese and their employees are really in business=war against s, so
all you shills on this group, shut down, please. Remember, it was the
Japanese who identified bussiness as war, and that after the 2nd World
War !

[Edwardo Starinski]

Toyota will fix the problems and the public will forgive after awhile. We
have two Lexus in our family and not one problem.

Post by mcbrue
In her tearfull testimony before Congress, Mrs Smith said her Lexus
accelerated to 100 mph and it took several miles for it to shut down
so she could get it stopped in the left lane pull off. She did what
you or I would do with two footed braking, down shifting, keys off.
The enging kept varying up and down after it was pulled off. It finaly
shut down. DID SHE MEAN LEXUS ???? Or was that a mispeak ???
And I am only reporting what I heard all over CNN today so stop with
the stupid criticism of the witness already. There have been enough
other good, common folks with this problem that it is real. And the
Japanese and their employees are really in business=war against s, so
all you shills on this group, shut down, please. Remember, it was the
Japanese who identified bussiness as war, and that after the 2nd World
War !

[kitzler]

I see two potential problems with my Lexus GS accelerator pedal, one
that it is too close to the brake, I once stepped on the brake and my
foot hit the gas at the same time, (accidentally of course), the
other, my gas pedal is rather stiff under foot, when compared to my
friend's Toyota Avalon (same model year); when I complained about
this accelerator pedal stiffness, the dealer's response was that
nothing could be done. Since both gas pedals are fly by wire, GS and
Avalon, I seriously feel it is a pedal sensor/software problem, it
would be nice to have the sensor on Mrs Smith's Lexus ES checked to
see if it indeed failed. If that fails, why not update the software
so the brake function always overrides the accelerator function.