Agency won't open probe into Toyota unintended acceleration
DETROIT (AP) — U.S. safety regulators have rejected an electrical engineer's request to investigate low-speed unintended acceleration in Toyota and Lexus cars.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in documents posted Friday, said that three crashes cited in the engineer's request are consistent with the driver mistakenly hitting the gas pedal instead of the brake.
Raghavan also cited event data recorder information in two other crashes involving Toyota vehicles and asked NHTSA to do a more detailed analysis of the cars' hardware and software.
The recalls were for mechanical problems — faulty brakes, sticky gas pedals and floor mats that could trap the accelerator.