Waxman and Stupak also requested details about Toyota’s plans for providing brake override software for countering unintended acceleration in new and some existing vehicles, as well as efforts toward making information retrievable from its vehicle data recorders, or “black boxes. “Toyota has offered to demonstrate the results of our further research would welcome committee representatives to observe those demonstrations,” the company said in its statement. Exponent said Gilbert’s results were not representative of real world conditions because they could be achieved only in a laboratory setting. The letter from Waxman and Stupak came as Toyota openly challenged a key committee witness, who testified on February 23 that he found a possible throttle flaw during his own testing of the electronic circuitry in a Toyota Avalon.ĭavid Gilbert, a professor of auto technology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, has been retained by a safety advocate working with trial lawyers. Head of Ecommerce 4 Wheel Parts Sep 2022 - Present9 months United States Responsible for direct to consumer (d2c) website experience for the 4wp portfolio of companies throtl Inc 7 years 11. Regulators have said they may seek outside help on the Toyota review. But committees in both houses of Congress have questioned whether the agency conducted thorough investigations and whether it has adequate resources to do the job now. NHTSA has also found no problems over the years.
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