A government report finding no electronic defects in Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles will mean little for the more than 200 lawsuits pending over sudden acceleration claims, according to plaintiffs’ lawyers handling those cases.
In the report, released on Feb. 8 by the U.S. National Traffic Highway Safety Administration NHTSA, government engineers found that the unintended acceleration incidents in Toyota vehicles were due not to electronic problems, but rather to mechanical defects – specifically, to accelerator pedals that stuck to the floor and floor mats that got trapped. Toyota has recalled 8 million vehicles and paid $48.8 million in civil penalties due to those defects.
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