Toyota's brake problems continue to mount as complaints have now spread to the company's iconic brand the Prius….specifically the 2010 model as the Japaneses government has ordered Toyota to investigate the car's braking system.
"In the U.S., more than 100 complaints alleging poor brake performance
have been lodged with the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration against the 2010 Prius, a newly designed version of the
car that was introduced last summer."
Check out a recent video review of the 2010 Prius HERE.
But perhaps the one complaint that really matters is the recent one lodged by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
Wozniak claimed that his 2010 Prius (not involved in either recall), "goes wild but only under certain conditions of cruise control."
"This is software. It's not a bad accelerator pedal. It's very scary, but luckily for me I can hit the brakes," he added.
Wozniak went on to say that he tried to contact the the National
Highway Traffic Safety Institute and Toyota without any success.
So is the solution to the current problem only a mechanical one or is it a software glitch related to car's drive-by-wire system?
Toyota spokesman John Hanson claims that, "After man years of exhaustive
testing we have not found any evidence of an electronic (software)
problem that would have led to unwanted acceleration."
The most recent Prius complaints seem to center around the car's braking performance on bumpy roads.
"The complaints received via our dealers center around when drivers are
on a bumpy road or frozen surface," Paul Nolasco, a Toyota Motor Corp.
spokesman in Japan, said. "The driver steps on the brake and they do
not get as full of a braking feel as expected."
The current generation of the Toyota Prius is the third best selling car in Toyota's U.S. model line.
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