Toyota seen stingy on recorders’ data
‘Black box’ access poor, review finds
Posted: March 5, 2010 at 5:10 a.m.
This family photo shows an event data recorder taken from a 2008 Toyota Avalon in which four people were killed in Texas in 2009. A readout obtained by police listed information on the car’s acceleration and braking as “off.”
Toyota has for years blocked access to data stored in devices similar to airline “black boxes” that could explain crashes blamed on sudden unintended acceleration, according to an Associated Press review of lawsuits nationwide and interviews with auto-crash experts.
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