[Oeva-list] Prius brake problems?

[Myles Twete]

It's not the severity of the issues or that there's these recalls, it's that
evidently Toyota has preferred obfuscation, runarounds and false blames for
months rather than come out and announce a problem.  People have died and
politicos gets pressured when people die and there's evidence that more
could have been done earlier.  As for conspiracy of picking on Toyota,
maybe, but then I don't hear them going after VW or Subaru---both also very
popular here in Portlandistan.
-mt


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From: oeva-list-bounces at oeva.org [mailto:oeva-list-bounces at oeva.org] On
Behalf Of Janet Redhawk
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 4:24 PM
To: oeva-list at oeva.org
Subject: Re: [Oeva-list] Prius brake problems?

Can I just ask why this problem with Toyota cars rates a congressional
inquiry?

Where was congress when the Pinto was killing thousands of people?
Where was congress when Firestone tires were killing thousands of people?

I think the big 3 are ticked off that Toyota has become the #1 sales car in
America and now they are showing how unhappy they are about it.

J

--- On Thu, 2/4/10, Theoldcars at aol.com <Theoldcars at aol.com> wrote:

> From: Theoldcars at aol.com <Theoldcars at aol.com>
> Subject: [Oeva-list] Prius brake problems?
> To: oeva-list at oeva.org
> Date: Thursday, February 4, 2010, 3:08 PM
> 
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> I have had the following problem with
> many antilock brakes. 
>  
> Every time you go over a wet manhole cover or
> even a wet slick painted area. When the one wheel hits
> before another or one by itself with the brakes on. The few
> hundreds of a second the wheel would have locked up triggers
> the antilock brakes to kick in. The vehicle stops much
> slower because the problem the system senses is only for a
> couple of feet. The system delays the vehicle stopping by
> rapidly pulsing on all the wheels and this vastly
> extends your stopping distance. Just about 100% of the time
> it is reacting to an event that would not have been a
> control problem and I hate it. This always seems to happen
> at slow speeds and it always seems to do it at
> a critical time. Like 20 or 30 feet before your
> going to hit something. 
>  
> I am not a tailgater but when I am coming to a stop I
> have expectations that I will come to a stop in a
> predictable way.
>  
> Don
>  
> In a message dated 2/4/2010 12:00:17 PM Pacific
> Standard Time, oeva-list-request at oeva.org writes:
> 1. Re: Prius brake problems?
> (gfifield at onlinenw.com)
> 
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 06:46:03 -0800 (PST)
> From: gfifield at onlinenw.com
> Subject: Re: [Oeva-list] Prius brake problems?
> To: "Myles Twete" <matwete at comcast.net>
> Cc: oeva-list at oeva.org
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> Apple's co-founder Wozniak's Prius problems:
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100203/bs_afp/usjapanautotoyotarecallapple
> 
> http://bit.ly/9z3VJr
> 
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> >
> >
> > "report suggests is that sometimes the braking
> system in the Prius can
> > stop
> > working on bumpy and slippery roads."
> >
> >
> http://www.mibz.com/5265-new-trouble-for-toyota-prius-brake-problems.html
> >
> > Toyota's now looking at a Prius recall for this.
> >
> >
> >
> > -mt
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