| Toyota Cars has always been a market leader for | | | | fail safe in some cars. |
| many decades now. The brand has continued to | | | | This new technology that the brand has introduced i.e. |
| deliver quality products and services to its loyal client | | | | brake to idle fail safe, is something that is computer |
| base who do not think twice before buying any | | | | controlled. It cancels the accelerator inputs as the |
| product from them. | | | | brakes are depressed. Thus, with this new technology, |
| However, there have been some technical | | | | it becomes impossible for the accelerator, if ever |
| malfunctions that have been experienced in the cars | | | | stuck, to cause an accident. This is because a single |
| manufactured by Toyota. The fault has been found | | | | touch of the brakes gives an indication to the |
| primarily in the accelerator pedal. It was few years | | | | computer that the gas pedal should be ignored. |
| back that Toyota first announced that it will introduce a | | | | The fail safe is a foolproof and simple countermeasure |
| shrunk model of the accelerator in all its 2007 - 2010 | | | | for the stuck up accelerator problem, as it only |
| models. It was then only, that many automobile experts | | | | requires the ECU or engine control unit programming to |
| had raised their concern on this. | | | | be updated. Thus, when Toyota had announced that |
| The thought behind this was that, if the gas pedal was | | | | they would re-size the accelerator pedals in its new |
| made smaller, it would help avoid the situation of the | | | | cars, they also announced that they would reprogram |
| accelerator being stuck under the floor mat of the | | | | the Camry, Avalon and few other cars and include in |
| driver. But the fact remained that it was only half the | | | | them their latest technology i.e. brake-idle-fail safe |
| measure. The actual way of sorting out the problem | | | | system. |
| was to reprogram the computer so that it would | | | | This indeed is great news for all the owners of |
| include a brake to idle fail safe. | | | | Toyota. They as always, have ensured that they give |
| The company has now recalled the cars that have | | | | the best to their customers and have thus set a great |
| new gas pedals and replaced them with brake to idle | | | | example of always doing the right thing. |