Here come the TOYOTA SHILLS!

"Professional provocateur" ?

Kind description of PAID TOYOTA SHILLS!

What's TOYOTA hiding?

THE TRUTH?

	Charlene M. Blake (@charleneblake)
11/15/14, 11:06 AM #Professional #provocateur UPSET about #defective #Toyota #Corolla #Ruginis case! Attacking #commenters viciously! wpri.com/2014/11/13/fed…

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Charlene McCarthy Blake

Parris Boyd

Here we go again with another "performance" by the auto industry's little lapdog. Never mind NHTSA's complicity in GM's ignition-switch scandal and Takata's exploding airbags, not to mention NHTSA's refusal to address evidence GALORE - presented by embedded systems expert MIchael Barr - of electronic defects in Toyota's throttle control. The problem is a corporate-controlled government - Repukes n Demagogues alike - incapable of taking action against its murderous, blood-drenched cohorts in the auto industry. I've been blogging about the situation - search "Beware of Toyota. Their next victim may be YOU..."

Azar Hadi

I am a victim of sudden unintended acceleration and there many more out there like me. We need a better system in place to protect consumers from the lies and cover up of auto makers..

Sudden UnintendedAcceleration is real, it happened to me in 2005. I had purchased a brand new 2004 ES 330 Lexus while sitting at the red light my
car took off like a rocket going through the red light. By the time I realized what was happening my car was going over 100 miles an hour and I realized that I did not have brake and I could hear the accelerator revving. All I was able to do hold on to the wheel trying to avoid hitting anyone. All I could think that my car was going to kill people. I was so fortunate that no one was kill and what eventually happen I end up on the other side of the street hitting a SUV head on totaling both cars.

The dashboard fell on my legs and crushed both legs severely. The SUV driver had some minor damages. As the result of my Lexus suddenly accelerating, I have had 24 surgeries and more in future. My left leg will have to be amputated above the knee since surgery can not do any good anymore and my right ankle will have to be fused since I am in sever pain. I hope Toyota stops the lies and fix those cars rather than blaming the elderly, teens, texting, medical issues or anything else Toyota can come up with except its sudden unintended acceleration in its cars.

Azar Hadi Brannan



Azar Hadi

Highway patrol was not able too, remember this case was settled for $10,000,000 out of court.
Case Bookout vs Toyota Mr. Micheal Barr proved that when cars like Toyota/Lexus accelerate there is nothing you can do to stop them due to electronic defects and if you remember Toyota lost this landmark case.

On August 28, 2009, California Highway Patrol Officer Mark
Saylor, his wife, daughter and brother-in-law were killed in an uncontrolled acceleration crash in a 2009 Lexus ES350 in San Diego. Unlike the many deadly Toyota sudden acceleration before, this crash was captured on a 911 call made by Mrs Saylor from the speeding car with a stuck accelerator before it crashed and killed all the occu­pants. At the time of the crash, NHTSA did not have a single open invest­igation in Toyota sudden acceleration. Toyota exploited to avoid recalls
until the tragic crash in San Diego in August 2009 that resulted in 4 deaths in a Lexus driven by an experienced highway patrol officer who was unable to bring the vehicle to a stop. But
for the crash being caught on a 911 tape, the recent recalls would not have occurred because the crash would have gone unnoticed like so many before it which the agency blamed on driver error



FRANKOK

Saudi Arabia knows what to do - why not the NHTSA?
I never owned one but am always concerned for friends and family who do.
There should be a push to force Toyota to install brake override on all that have the electronics and code evaluated by the 12 experts - NASA did not have the source code for their review.
From:
http://www.albawaba.com/busine...
Over 141,000 Toyota and Lexus cars recalled over dangers of sudden
acceleration The recall of as many as 141,007 Toyota and Lexus cars has been initiated in the sultanate to install Smart Stop Technology, a brake override system, in
their vehicles to curtail dangers associated with sudden acceleration.

Azar Hadi

Thank you for your comment and we need more people like you to speak against Toyota and Lexus. You should be worried about friends and families, sudden unintended acceleration has killed and injured over 2000 people in US alone. Why is it that Saudi Arabia values people's life more that US government?

Charlene McCarthy Blake

Ah, professional provocateur is concerned about the Robert & Kathy Ruginis defective Toyota Corolla case! And rightly so as here are the earmarks of a major automotive scandal!

Censorship and critic discrediting is in full force by Toyota $$friends as professional provocateur has pointed out, especially when it concerns evidence of electronic glitches which cause Toyota and Lexus vehicles to become uncontrollable and unstoppable! Why these glitches often cause these vehicles to become airborne just prior to a horrific crash!

Azar Hadi

Landmark case Bookout vs Toyota last October where Toyota lost not only had to pay compensatory, but also punitive damages to victims. It was this case that sent Toyota to settlement mode. Over 500 cases going through MEDIATION right now all over US. Some will end up in trial which will show more exposure of the defect that causes accelerations something that Toyota is trying to avoid. It would have been so much cheaper if Toyota/Lexus had done the right thing rather than hiding their sudden unintended acceleration issues and murdering and injuring innocent people..


Azar Hadi

I am just wondering where the next job will be for Mr. David Friedman since he is not doing much for the public when comes to Toyota/Lexus sudden unintended acceleration??? I have an idea, I am pretty sure his next job will be a highly paid job at Toyota just like Mr. Christopher Santucci, a revolving door..

Charlene McCarthy Blake

Excellent question, Azar! I know you are especially concerned since you are a Toyota Lexus sudden unintended acceleration victim yourself! You've no doubt watched as former NHTSA regulator Christopher Santucci narrowed the focus of the previous Toyota SUA investigation so that no real steps were taken to uncover and FIX the electronic glitches in the ETCS-i software that Michael Barr later found in the Bookout v Toyota Camry fatal death case. It must be devastating to see a paid NHTSA employee, where our taxes are contributed, allegedly allow Toyota to HIDE the serious safety defects and then go on to be EMPLOYED by the automaker! This seems more than criminal; it seems immoral and unconscionable to me!

Let's watch what Mr. David Friedman does in this very important Toyota Corolla unintended acceleration case! IF he does not open a defect investigation, then consumers need to organize...BIG time! This case has all the earmarks of a serious safety defect in a Toyota that could lead to untold numbers of deaths, injuries, and destruction!

IF a defect investigation is opened and then closed in short order as so many have been done in the past in the Toyota and Lexus sudden unintended acceleration, then a major public backlash needs to occur! This would be blatantly ignoring an on-going serious DEADLY situation in these Corolla vehicles!

Azar Hadi

Thanks Charlene, I am so grateful to see a consumer advocate like yourself spending her precious time working so hard to bring changes about and make unscrupulous auto makers like Toyota/Lexus accountable for their criminal activities. Being blocked by sites who support and get paid by Toyota $$$ to me is simply blood of people who have been killed and injured and I am an example of sudden unintended acceleration who injured badly in a Lexus.


Charlene McCarthy

You are welcome, Azar! I have *twenty* years of auto consumer advocacy. When I was involved in the Toyota engine oil sludge debacle, a professional provocateur implied that I had single-handedly created the HOAX back in late 2000.

Well, we all know what ultimately happened there. It was certainly no hoax! There is a May 13, 2002 Automotive News article that highlights my efforts in that serious matter. The oil sludge issue pales in comparison to the Toyota & Lexus electronic throttle control system software defect! I can see why the automaker might be concerned about online dialogue about this potentially deadly defect!

Charlene McCarthy Blake

Just by speaking out to those similarly-impacted, you are making a huge difference! Thank you so much for sharing your story! You are FAR FROM ALONE!

What an automaker, particularly one like Toyota which has admitted to hiding defects and not telling the truth, wants least is for vehicle owners to NETWORK to EXPOSE these same problems!

Kudos to your effort to reach out to those who may not yet know the truth!

 

Time to clean up the mess at NHTSA

OPINION: Time to clean up the mess at NHTSA

Jim Hall and Peter Goelz 12:07 a.m. EST November 15, 2014

 

 

There is a crisis in our highway transportation industry that will only be adequately addressed when Congress agrees with what has been known in the aviation industry for half a century — a regulator cannot be an investigator.

 

We have seen this with the Honda-Takata exploding airbags, GM ignition switches and Toyota's acceleration problems. Now there is mounting evidence that problems with the safety culture at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration continue to this day.

 

When the Transportation Department was established in 1966, it was composed of several regulatory agencies, including the Federal Aviation Administration. However, a separate agency was established outside the FAA and independent of the Transportation Department to investigate aviation accidents — the National Transportation Safety Board. Our leaders realized at that time that you cannot conduct effective investigations of yourself.

 

After an airliner crash, for example, the NTSB investigates the company and the crew and the manufacturers, but it also investigates the regulator (the FAA) that might have played a role in the crash through inadequate rules or inadequate enforcement of its rules.

 

In the automobile industry, we have seen a record 50 million vehicles recalled this year due to design flaws. Is this a sign that NHTSA is doing its job? On the contrary, these recalls were the result of investigations outside of the agency that brought to light problems the regulator didn't find because it didn't look.

 

NHTSA has become a paper tiger that defines the concept of the revolving door. It is staffed by former auto industry personnel, while the auto industry is replete with former NHTSA officials.

 

 

 

 

 

As we learned in our years at the NTSB, the most effective way for an organization to avoid accidents is to establish a strong corporate safety structure. This is no less true for government agencies. NHTSA does not have that safety culture and past attempts to instill it have failed.

 

The only solution is to remove the investigation function from NHTSA and place it in the agency that has proved its effectiveness and independence for decades, the NTSB. NHTSA would retain its regulatory function but it would not investigate itself. This process has proved its value with the airline industry, which is experiencing an unprecedented era of safety.

 

The NTSB has already enhanced highway safety through special studies that helped ban lap-only seat belts in automobiles and led to depowered airbags, to removing child safety seats from the front seat and to effectively raising the drinking age to 21.

 

This is the ideal solution to the institutional failures we are witnessing at NHTSA. NTSB findings will not only present the same competence we have seen in aviation investigations (and others it has conducted in marine and rail accidents) but will give the American people confidence that the results are not tainted by industry influence.

 

You cannot have the culture of a regulator and the culture of an investigator, they are two different things. Leave the regulating to NHTSA, but move the investigative function to where it belongs — the NTSB.

 

Jim Hall, president of Hall & Associates, was chairman of the NTSB, where Peter Goelz was managing director.

http://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/opinion/2014/11/15/opinion-time-clean-mess-nhtsa/19025963/

 

Will TOYOTA/NHTSA Inc. WHITEWASH?

It is unclear if NHTSA possesses the expertise to analyze the SPAGHETTI CODE!

VIDEO ON LINK

Feds to perform tests on Bristol couple’s car

By Target 12 Consumer Investigator Susan Hogan
Published: November 13, 2014

Related Coverage

• Bristol couple requests investigation by federal safety agency

• Federal regulators reviewing Bristol couple’s case

BRISTOL, R.I. (WPRI) — Federal safety regulators are moving forward with an investigation into a possible unintended acceleration case involving a Bristol couple’s Toyota.
 

Target 12 has learned they’ve picked up the couple’s car and is towing it to a testing facility in Ohio. It’s not often you get a tow from the federal government, but when your car is the source of a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) investigation – it’s a welcomed ride.
 

Bob and Kathy Ruginis’s car has been at a Massachusetts dealership ever since it was involved in a low-speed crash. Even though the crash itself was insignificant, Kathy said it’s what led to the crash that makes it a big deal.
 

“It was an awkward feeling knowing my foot was on the brake and I was accelerating,” she said.

Kathy claims her Corolla, on numerous occasions, would surge forward even though she says her foot was on the brake. In September, the couple filed a petition with the NHTSA asking the agency to investigate their case, along with hundreds of other complaints from Toyota owners – all who say their cars experienced surges while the brakes were applied.
 

The NHTSA agreed to lease the car from the couple for 90 days. Their plan is “to replicate the various conditions under which [they] experienced the surges.”
 

“I don’t think we’ll get much out of it, but for other people I hope it will help them find something that Toyota can correct,” said Bob Ruginis.
 

Car safety expert Sean Kane has been very critical of the NHTSA’s handling of Toyota’s response in unintended acceleration incidents in the past.
 

“What we’re looking at is the very same people who have gone out of their way to not find any problems with the electronics are now back at it, and somehow now they’re going to find something?” he asked.
 

Toyota has recalled millions of vehicles for sudden unintended acceleration incidents it blamed on “sticky pedals” and “flood mats,” but some Toyota drivers like the Ruginis’ claim their sudden surge had nothing to do with sticky pedals or floor mats since they had those fixed under the recall. Only time will tell what federal engineers will determine, depending on what is revealed in the testing.
 

Target 12 reached out to Toyota on Thursday, and in a statement said it “welcomes further scientific analysis and will continue to cooperate with any requests from NHTSA regarding its investigation.”

http://wpri.com/2014/11/13/feds-to-perform-tests-on-bristol-couples-car/

Don't hold you breath on this one!

TOYOTA/NHTSA Inc. : Finally caught with its pants down?

Toyota Unintended Acceleration Probed as Tacomas Recalled

Jeff Plungis and Craig TrudellSep 30, 2014 3:57 am ET

 

 

Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp. may face dual setbacks as a U.S. regulator renews its scrutiny of claims involving unintended acceleration and the company begins to recall 690,000 pickup trucks.

 

As many as 1.69 million Toyota Corollas with model years from 2006 to 2010 could be subject to investigation after owners said they experienced unintended “low-speed surging,” according to a notice yesterday from the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Separately, Toyota recalled Tacoma trucks to fix suspension parts that may break down.

 

The Corolla complaints are reminiscent of the sudden, unintended acceleration episodes that led the world’s largest automaker to recall more than 10 million vehicles in 2009 and 2010. Toyota paid a record $1.2 billion penalty, admitted it misled consumers and agreed to three years of supervision by an independent monitor to oversee its safety practices as part of a settlement with the U.S. in March.

 

 

 

 

Now let's see if he does his JOB!

 

 

“Toyota will cooperate fully with any inquiry,” said Ed Lewis, a spokesman for the Toyota City, Japan-based manufacturer.

Toyota fell 0.4 percent to close at 6,463 yen in Tokyo, while Japan’s benchmark Topix Index declined 0.8 percent.

The Tacoma recall covers trucks with model years 2005 through 2011. While Toyota said in a statement it isn’t aware of any crashes, injuries or fatalities associated with the defect, several truck owners have filed complaints with NHTSA about faulty leaf springs damaging the brakes of their vehicles.

 

Tacoma Complaints

 

“Just leaving work to go pick up my children from school, I noticed a strange rattling coming from the bottom side of my truck,” one owner wrote of an incident that occurred in May. “I noticed the middle (of three) leaf springs had completely broke, slid out of place, and was rubbing against my brake line.”

 

In June, another Toyota pickup owner said a broken leaf spring cut the vehicle’s brake line, while the driver’s 8-year- old child was in the truck.

Toyota has sought to repair its reputation for quality that was blemished by the unintended acceleration recalls and contributed to the company losing its title as the world’s top- selling automaker in 2011 to General Motors Co. The Toyota City, Japan-based company regained leadership in each of the last two years and clung to its lead over Volkswagen AG through the first half of 2014.

Throttle Control

While Toyota’s past unintended acceleration cases led the company to modify gas pedals and floor mats, NHTSA said its latest case, which hasn’t escalated to a full defect investigation, focuses on

Corollas equipped with an electronic throttle-control system called ETCS-i.

 

 

NO RESPECTABLE JOURNALIST WHO HAS DONE HIS RESEARCH WOULD REPEAT THE  TOYOTA PROPAGANDA BELOW! BLOOMBERG, YOU'RE BETTER THAN THIS! 

 

NASA, the U.S. space agency, and NHTSA conducted a 10-month probe ending in February 2011 that found unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles were the result of mechanical flaws and found no electronic defects were to blame.

 

 

 

 

This month, a Corolla owner whose car accelerated and crashed while attempting to park asked the agency to investigate, saying there were 163 reports of similar incidents.

Safety Research and Strategies Inc., a Rehoboth, Massachusetts-based company that works on court cases alleging automotive defects, said petitioners have evidence from the electronic data recorders in their cars that the brakes were being applied while their Corollas sped up.

 

 

 

 

http://washpost.bloomberg.com/Story?docId=1376-NCNXWZ6K50XW01-6O6L9I99RGD5VSF6EMBVOIEA2D