Toyota reaches $1.2 billion settlement to end probe of accelerator problems

For many years Toyota has been erroneously accused by regulators, parliaments and the general public due to the rapid acceleration of automobiles, but due to this fraud, the world's largest automaker is fined $ 1 billion to the Ministry of Justice on Wednesday It was.

Toyota eventually remembered more than 6 million cars in order to change the floor mat and viscous accelerator pedal, but due to its slow response, the settlement with the Ministry of Justice amounted to 1.2 billion dollars, a fine from National Highway Traffic Safety Authority It is close to $ 50 million in total. These agencies accuse Toyota as obscuring knowledge about security flaws. As part of an agreement to delay the prosecution of the Justice Department, Toyota said, "To hide and create two security problems affecting cars, they made misunderstanding American consumers, each causing unexpected acceleration" recognized.

Evidence that Toyota and Lexus models have been unexpectedly accelerated for years has been increasing, but Toyota agreed to pay US government $ 1.2 billion to avoid indictment . As with other big recalls, Toyota first tried to accuse the driver of the mistake. Then it indicates that the floor mat is preventing the return of the accelerator pedal to some extent even though the company's hidden document indicates that the defect of the accelerator pedal assembly is caused

911 The phone was viral and a scandal occurred. In the next five years, an estimated 90 people died in a Toyota car that is being accelerated mysteriously. Toyota remembered millions of cars, but was accused of hiding information about a flawed pedal. In 2014, the company paid $ 1.2 billion to avoid litigation, as Toyota obscured the FBI's assertion of accidental acceleration that "this knows it is fatal." What is the real cause? Human error I think that the driver is braking in many cases reporting that the accelerator is accidentally fixed to the floor. In most cases, data from many "black box" cars due to accidents accelerated by the accident indicates that the brake has never been touched.