I want to know why is this a problem with just Toyota? How many cars use the same type of system and how many have these problems?
Listening to some of the people in interviews as they are readying their law suits over the issue of "surging" acceleration, I have to call BS on a lot of what I heard. A car in park doesn't shift into drive and drive through a building. and they don't just start on their own and drive into the garage (I figure their 14 year old daughter and her boyfreind may have had something to do with it). How many times have we heard some old fart who couldn't figure out that he/she was stepping on the accelerator, not the brake and went through a 7-11?
I sat at lunch yesterday hearing about GM's woes, which makes this seem trivial, steering problems (more than just loss of control under 15 mph by the way), electrical shorts in wiring harnesses causing fires and sudden acceleration on some expensive junk they sell, nothing much in the news because they are covering as normal stuff for GM. I also listened to the diatrib of "Toyota hate" from a select few who were just about as ignorant as one can get, I assume UAW. They don't get the idea that Toyota's Quality Control has lapsed because of the people here accepting junk and Toyota respoinding by lowering standards. It is not Japan or the CEO of Toyota clueless while the CEO of GM is less in tune with his company but it illustrates the real problem - the consumer accepting crap to begin with.