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Listen man, I confess that I was talking from memory and that even though the brake issue recall did happen, it wasn't the one you were talking about. Which is my bad.
Still, you are wrong. The quote you keep posting is not supporting your claims.
There are still no confirmed cases of the sticky pedal issue actually having occurred with fatal consequences. Nor has it occurred disproportionally to cars from other manufacturers:
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Toyota is not the only automobile manufacturer that has issued recalls for unintended acceleration problems. In December 2009, Consumer Reports analyzed 2008 model year NHTSA data for sudden acceleration among Toyota, Ford, Chrysler, GM, Honda, and Nissan, finding 52 complaints involving Toyota vehicles or 41% of complaints among these makes,[240] and every other major car maker is affected.[241][242] Consumer Reports noted that the media publicity around Toyota led to an increase in complaints for 2008 models.[243] In February 2010, National Public Radio obtained the full NHTSA database of 15,000 unintended acceleration complaints over the past decade, and determined that among all manufacturers, Volkswagen had the highest rate of unintended acceleration complaints in 2009 and 2008 (11.5 and 21.6 per 100,000 vehicles respectively), while Suzuki had the highest rate in 2007 and 2006 (27.4 and 24.9 per 100,000 vehicles respectively).[238] Toyota had 7.5, 6.8, 15.2, and 9.7 complaints per 100,000 vehicles in those years.[238] According to NPR's analysis of the NHTSA database, Jaguar, Volvo, and Honda also had high complaints depending on year.[238][244]
In February 2010, Edmunds.com released its findings on a review of all NHTSA complaints from 2001 to the present day, conducted in light of the Toyota recall crisis. The review found that despite the recall, during the previous decade Toyota ranked 17th among the 20 major car makes in number of complaints per vehicles sold, with a lower rate of customer complaints from its U.S. customers than the Detroit Big Three, along with Honda, Subaru, Hyundai, Nissan, Isuzu, Suzuki, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Volvo, Volkswagen, and BMW.[245][246] Edmunds.com also noted that any individual can file a NHTSA complaint without providing a Vehicle Identification Number (VIN),[172] which can lead to misleading statistics as "not all NHTSA complaints are created equal" and range from legitimate to nonsensical.[14] On June 5, 2010, NHTSA shut down online access to its complaint database following revelations of redundant, unverifiable entries and improperly secured personal data.[247]
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Still, Toyota, as a manufacturer when imposed with such hysteria is hardly in a position to fight these claims and chose to handle it the safe way.
What they actually found was that the optional all-weather floor mats, when fastened incorrectly after a service may have a chance of getting stuck under the gas paddle. They could fix this by making some minor adjustments, so they did by means of a voluntary recall for those concerned about it. Even though there is no evidence to this having caused any sort of accident.
Still, when you put things in perspective it has really been a total non issue. The affected Toyotas were still by far and away some of the safest cars you could buy:
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Odds from Car and Driver indicated that the alleged fatality risk was about 1 in 200,000 recalled Toyota vehicles, versus a 1 in 8,000 risk of a fatal car accident in any car in the U.S.,[18] while Consumer Reports stated a 1 in 10,000 chance of anunintended acceleration complaint out of 20 million Toyotas on the road.[17]
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There are many more kinks, you can read the full story here.
I just don't buy it considering the circumstances. If you do I'd like to see why.
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