Toyota’s highest ranking U.S. executive has testified before jurors for the first time in a trial over sudden acceleration defects, but there’s no certainty he will show up for future trials.
For two hours in Los Angeles on Tuesday, plaintiffs’ lawyer Garo Mardirossian probed James Lentz, chief executive officer of Toyota of North America Inc., about whether installing a brake override system in his client’s 2006 Camry would have prevented her death. Such systems are designed to stop a car when the brake and accelerator pedals are pressed at the same time.
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