Given all the attention Toyota has received for the unintended acceleration issues, it’s not surprising that it’s one of the first things that cross the minds of drivers whenever they’re involved in a strange and usually, hard to explain, accident or incident. Sometimes they are right, but sometimes they are wrong.
A female driver of a relatively new Toyota Highlander posted a video of a rather bizarre incident on YouTube a couple of months back (on January 21, to be precise), though, this is the first time we’ve seen it, and judging from the low viewer counter, most likely the same applies to you too.
Here’s what the author of the video, which was captured by a security camera, stated on YouTube:
“Terror in our Toyota! Sure looks like the Electronic Throttle Control got stuck, huh? Another case of “UNINTENDED ACCELERATION?” She was only able to control the car with the PRNDL – 3 teenage girls in the car and just pulling into a neighbor’s driveway to pick-up during carpool! This could happen to you! The car was totalled, the home has sever damage, and a car inside the home was totaled out and another damaged. Toyota’s response: “…no evidence of any sort of manufacturing or design defect…” You look at this video and decide for yourself!”
If you ask us and without knowing if there was indeed an issue with the gas pedal or the floor mat, the woman seems like she was shifting from “Drive” to “Reverse” and back, not once, but a couple of times, instead of just placing the lever to “Park”, while as one commentator on Jalopnik pointed out, from the video, it doesn’t look like the brake lights went on during the episode…
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