Despite lawmakers’ and some drivers’ suggestions that a malfunction in the electronic throttle control system of recalled Toyota and Lexus vehicles could have caused incidences of sudden acceleration, the government’s investigation into the complaints has found no evidence of flawed electronics in 58 of the vehicles that crashed.An examination of the crashes also found only one instance in which an accelerator pedal became trapped under a floor mat, and none in which a pedal became stuck or sprang back too slowly, according to a preliminary report to Congress.The raw findings support Toyota’s contention that many of the reports of sudden acceleration might actually have been instances of human error — drivers mistakenly pressing the gas pedal instead of the brake.
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