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Toyota allegedly is accused of 'Unintended Acceleration' of some of their model cars. The Prius and the Lexus HS has known safety issues of possible faulty breaking systems and a recall is issued. Further, in 2010 the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) ordered Toyota Motor Corporation to issue a recall on several other motor vehicles for known issues such as the sticky accelerator pedal. Toyota states that the sticky accelerator was due to factory installed floor mats that the company issues with each of their new vehicles and Toyota stated for the consumer to remove the floor mats to fix this problem. Conversely, investigators from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) found no link between the unintended acceleration and flaws of electronic throttle. Investigators instead, blamed driver error or floor mats to be the cause.
Nonetheless, due to multiple injuries and deaths that have continued to occur after removing the floor mats the NHTSA stated that the removal of the floo...

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