Toyota, one of the largest automobile manufacturers in the world, recently was embarrassed by a gross error on their part. A design error caused the gas pedal to stick to the floor mat causing permanent acceleration. This can be dangerous for those wishing to keep their lives, but those living by the motto “live fast, die young” are quite satisfied with the literal manifestation of their creed. This error affects up to 4.1 million cars all over the world. Fortunately it is an easily fixable error and the parts should be available for installation shortly.
Interestingly enough, the discovery of this error was not made in a Toyota but a Lexus (designed and produced by the same corporation) which killed four people last year in August. The design flaw was found to be more prevalent in Toyotas and an initial recall was made in November of last year. However, this workaround failed to fix the problem and more incidents have occurred. On January 27, the recall was continued and amended to fix the error for good. For those worried that their car may have the error, go to Toyota.com/recall for specific vehicle information.
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