{"id":681857,"date":"2010-03-03T23:40:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T04:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/?p=5591"},"modified":"2010-03-03T23:40:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T04:40:27","slug":"edmunds-offers-1-million-prize-for-toyota-acceleration-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/681857","title":{"rendered":"Edmunds Offers $1 Million Prize For Toyota Acceleration Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gas2.org\/files\/2010\/03\/LogoToyota.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5592 alignleft\" title=\"LogoToyota\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/gas2\/files\/2010\/03\/LogoToyota.jpg?w=180\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/a>If you&#8217;re like me, then you still don&#8217;t know who to believe about Toyota&#8217;s &#8220;unintended acceleration&#8221; problem. Toyota says it isn&#8217;t an electrical issue. In the past they&#8217;ve also blamed, of all things, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toyota.com\/recall\/floormat.html\">floor mats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ABC news found a technology professor named David Gilbert who claims <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/22\/video-smoking-gun-abc-news-expert-recreates-sudden-acceleratio\/\">he can create a short that causes Toyotas to accelerate<\/a>, although his results have been proven to be difficult to recreate. Unsurprisingly, Toyota says his results are suspect. Yet, some owners of &#8220;fixed&#8221; cars are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601101&amp;sid=awJ8j8Y5QWnU\">still complaining about unintended acceleration<\/a>. Toyota has said they&#8217;re looking into it.<\/p>\n<p>Edmunds,\u00a0determined\u00a0to get to the bottom of all this, has decided to offer $1 million to whoever can figure out exactly what is behind all of this acceleration madness and fix it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/03\/03\/edmunds-offers-1-million-prize-for-toyota-acceleration-problem\/#more-5591\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=ZtyheptLbwY:ms_pne6hN5M:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=ZtyheptLbwY:ms_pne6hN5M:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=ZtyheptLbwY:ms_pne6hN5M:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=ZtyheptLbwY:ms_pne6hN5M:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=ZtyheptLbwY:ms_pne6hN5M:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=ZtyheptLbwY:ms_pne6hN5M:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=ZtyheptLbwY:ms_pne6hN5M:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=ZtyheptLbwY:ms_pne6hN5M:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gas2\/org\/~4\/ZtyheptLbwY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re like me, then you still don&#8217;t know who to believe about Toyota&#8217;s &#8220;unintended acceleration&#8221; problem. Toyota says it isn&#8217;t an electrical issue. In the past they&#8217;ve also blamed, of all things, floor mats. ABC news found a technology professor named David Gilbert who claims he can create a short that causes Toyotas to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2RnH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}