Report: Feds block Toyota 'unintended acceleration' doc release
 

<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/government-legal/" rel="tag">Government/Legal</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/safety/" rel="tag">Safety</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/toyota/" rel="tag">Toyota</a></p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703999304 575399523349443634.html?m %20od=googlenews_wsj"><im g vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" align="right" alt="" class="right border" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/07/toyota-250.jpg" /></a>A new report from the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703999304 575399523349443634.html?m %20od=googlenews_wsj"><em >The Wall Street Journal</em></a> claims that the Department of Transportation is blocking the release of National Highway Transportation Safety Administration findings on the <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/make/toyota/">Toyota</a> unintended acceleration issues. According to the article, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/07/19/followup-toyota-strongly-objects-to-nhtsa-allegations-it-plan/"><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tag/NHTSA/">NHTSA</a></a> has compiled all the relevant information and written a report on its findings, but George Pearson, the former head of the agency's recall division, says that he was told that the Transportation Department doesn't want the information released. Why? Pearson didn't say, but the <em>Journal </em>seems to think that the information could add fuel to the argument that NHTSA is too close to automakers.<br />
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Meanwhile, the Transportation Department says that the report is incomplete, and that it will take more time to properly review all of the data associated with the issue. Pearson, on the other hand, claims that the report shows that in the majority of unintended acceleration cases, the vehicle's black boxes clearly indicated that the accelerator was depressed and the brake pedal was not. That means that the cases could be chalked up to driver error - something that would serve to vindicate Toyota. <em>Thanks for the tip, MKIV!</em><br />
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[Source: <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703999304 575399523349443634.html?m %20od=googlenews_wsj">The Wall Street Journal</a>]<p style="padding:5px;backgr ound:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/08/01/report-feds-block-toyota-unintended-acceleration-doc-release/">Report: Feds block Toyota 'unintended acceleration' doc release</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.autoblog.com">Autoblo g</a> on Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:25:00 EST. Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/08/01/report-feds-block-toyota-unintended-acceleration-doc-release/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19575657/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/08/01/report-feds-block-toyota-unintended-acceleration-doc-release/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>

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