How to make $$$: Drive a Toyota, step on the gas, call 911, sue Toyota

[thundley4]

ztlore (17 posts)           Tue Mar-09-10 01:35 PM
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How to make $$$: Drive a Toyota, step on the gas, call 911, sue Toyota
   
Edited on Tue Mar-09-10 01:37 PM by ztlore
Your 911 call will be recorded.

Toyota doesn't have anything to prove that you didn't step on the gas either by mistake or on purpose.

It's your word (innocent American) vs. Toyota (lying Japanese).

Big Bad Toyota will settle out of court.

How many attorneys are thinking the same thing?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7877951

Nice bit of racism there, ZIT primitive.

Vinnie From Indy   (1000+ posts)           Tue Mar-09-10 01:40 PM
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2. Anybody got a Toyota I can borrow?

I'm sure that this will be done more than once in the near future.

[NHSparky]

Toyota doesn't have anything to prove that you didn't step on the gas either by mistake or on purpose.

Actually, given the evidence from other consumers, they have a lot more than you think, DUmmie.  And filing a false claim against insurance is a felony, as is suing under knowingly false pretense with the intent of obtaining money or other compensation.

It's called FRAUD, dipshit.

[GOBUCKS]

DUmmy zit has hit the nail squarely on the head. That's exactly how trial lawyers work, and get rich. It's worse in this case, because in addition to the MSM going nuts on any anecdote, you have the jug-eared Kenyan's administration looking for any way to improve the market share of Government Motors. It's very possible this whole catastrophe consists only of a few wadded up floor mats. Add in the fraudsters, the same guys who race to jump on board a wrecked bus, the MSM, the trial lawyer jackals, and the government, and suddenly the best cars in the world are death traps.

[thundley4]

It's very possible this whole catastrophe consists only of a few wadded up floor mats. Add in the fraudsters, the same guys who race to jump on board a wrecked bus, the MSM, the trial lawyer jackals, and the government, and suddenly the best cars in the world are death traps.

I think so too.  Toyota should immediately shutter all US plants until the problem is solved. 

An interesting read on Toyota's problem and what isn't causing it.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/how_to/4347704.html

[The Village Idiot]

I think so too.  Toyota should immediately shutter all US plants until the problem is solved. 

An interesting read on Toyota's problem and what isn't causing it.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/how_to/4347704.html

didn't GM just recall 1.3 million cars for the same problem??

[AllosaursRus]

This thread reeeeeeaaaaalllllllyyyyyyy needs to be sent to Toyota. I can't, I hove no email here in the hospital. Somebody will have to pull my weight over this.

[Gwitness]

software issue...bet on it.

[diesel driver]

didn't GM just recall 1.3 million cars for the same problem??

GM recalled a bunch of cars for failing power steering pump motors....

I guess they aren't driven off the engine with a belt anymore....

[Randy]

GM recalled a bunch of cars for failing power steering pump motors....

I guess they aren't driven off the engine with a belt anymore....

Dude, GM has recalled damn near, if not every one of their cars, some multiple times for everything imaginable. Ford and Chrysler too. Everybody has recalls. The Gubbamint will only force a recall if it's a safety issue. So every year there are dozens of them.

[DumbAss Tanker]

The Prius case in California has kind of an odor about it, the caller didn't want to try shifting to neutral when the dispatcher suggested he do that because 'he was afraid he would hit reverse.'  Granted he is a Californian driving a Prius, but that level of pathetic is tough to take seriously.

[NHSparky]

The Prius case in California has kind of an odor about it, the caller didn't want to try shifting to neutral when the dispatcher suggested he do that because 'he was afraid he would hit reverse.'  Granted he is a Californian driving a Prius, but that level of pathetic is tough to take seriously.

C'mon, DAT--remember how stupid the average person is, and then realize that by definition, half are stupider than that.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I can see someone spazzing out and forgetting to do it, I'm having a hard time with someone being told to do it by the dispatcher and refusing for such a stupid reason.  His transmission was worth more than his life?  He's either a total idiot that should be removed from the gene pool, or there is a faint odor of scam attached to this.

[zeitgeist]

I can see someone spazzing out and forgetting to do it, I'm having a hard time with someone being told to do it by the dispatcher and refusing for such a stupid reason.  His transmission was worth more than his life?  He's either a total idiot that should be removed from the gene pool, or there is a faint odor of scam attached to this.

Was the driver on the phone while all this was on going?  What do they teach in Driver Ed these days, "In case of an emergency dial 911??

BTW the latest in the morning rag was an article about the up coming "Class Action Suit" to recover "Loss of Value".  Poor liberals, no one wants to buy a run away Prius.  Bonzi!! Kamakazi resale value.

[Airwolf]

The Prius case in California has kind of an odor about it, the caller didn't want to try shifting to neutral when the dispatcher suggested he do that because 'he was afraid he would hit reverse.'  Granted he is a Californian driving a Prius, but that level of pathetic is tough to take seriously.

And don't think that Toyota's lawyers would not bring that up in court if the driver is dumb enough to try and sue. If he was that afraid to shift then all he had to do was nudge it slowly into neutral.

[Randy]

All he had to do was shut the damn car off. Even if he went a notch to far and locked the wheel all you have to do is unlock it. *IF* it was an electrical problem then a recycle of the key would fix it. If it wouldn't fix that way then Toyota would be able to duplicate the problem because it would be a problem they could trace down when the car's towed in.

Scam scam scam scam. Ain't no faint smell about it. It's a screaming, flag waving, brass band marching, lawyers lined up scam.

[debk]

All he had to do was shut the damn car off. Even if he went a notch to far and locked the wheel all you have to do is unlock it. *IF* it was an electrical problem then a recycle of the key would fix it. If it wouldn't fix that way then Toyota would be able to duplicate the problem because it would be a problem they could trace down when the car's towed in.

Scam scam scam scam. Ain't no faint smell about it. It's a screaming, flag waving, brass band marching, lawyers lined up scam.

I have a Nissan and it won't turn off unless my car is in park.

I wondered why he didn't hit the emergency brake....wouldn't that have helped? or would it have set it into a spin?

[Texacon]

You can't put modern cars in Reverse while you're moving (forward at speed).  They tried it on MythBusters and couldn't get it to go into reverse.  The selector went into reverse but the transmission didn't.

KC

[DumbAss Tanker]

Actually one of my kids knocked the gear selector into Reverse in a '90 Cutlass I was driving years ago, I just grabbed it snapped it back into Drive, so I knew it wouldn't actually engage; however the doofus in California didn't know that himself in this story, and based on what he was thinking, how much sense does it make to decide to stay with an impending 90 mph collision vs. possibly blowing out your trannie?  Not that most Prius drivers aren't total morons, but choosing that way is beyond even moron-level stoopid.

[Texacon]

Actually one of my kids knocked the gear selector into Reverse in a '90 Cutlass I was driving years ago, I just grabbed it snapped it back into Drive, so I knew it wouldn't actually engage; however the doofus in California didn't know that himself in this story, and based on what he was thinking, how much sense does it make to decide to stay with an impending 90 mph collision vs. possibly blowing out your trannie?  Not that most Prius drivers aren't total morons, but choosing that way is beyond even moron-level stoopid.

I'm in total agreement with you on this DAT.  I think something doesn't sound right.  I didn't hear the part about the operator telling him to put it in neutral ..... anybody with any kind of sense would have been willing to try that.

KC

[Carl]

I can see someone spazzing out and forgetting to do it, I'm having a hard time with someone being told to do it by the dispatcher and refusing for such a stupid reason.  His transmission was worth more than his life?  He's either a total idiot that should be removed from the gene pool, or there is a faint odor of scam attached to this.

That spazzing out part I get happening too but only for a few seconds and then some sort of rational plan formulating unless as you say he was a complete idiot and from my day to day job there are a lot of them out there.

I haven`t followed these threads all that close so it probably has been brought up and a bit tinfoil but is it possible that this whole "taking down" of Toyota has been a bit orchestrated by a government and its press mouth pieces to help promote GM and Chrysler or the UAW in general?

[Reality vs DU]

C'mon, DAT--remember how stupid the average person is, and then realize that by definition, half are stupider than that.

~George Carlin

[happy1ga]

Hubby and I contract w/ the Toyoda family. They are the nicest people. I told their NY guy I had been reading on the net where idiots want to use this as a scam. He said, "Tell me something we don't know. There's always some degenerate trying to scam a car company." I told I knew where there were potentially hundreds of scammers all gathered together in one place.

[thundley4]

Hubby and I contract w/ the Toyoda family. They are the nicest people. I told their NY guy I had been reading on the net where idiots want to use this as a scam. He said, "Tell me something we don't know. There's always some degenerate trying to scam a car company." I told I knew where there were potentially hundreds of scammers all gathered together in one place.

What makes this so bad is that no one has been able to find and nail down a proven legitimate cause for the unintended acceleration.  Without knowing the cause, it is hard to execute any defense, but it also makes it hard to prove and disprove that it happened in any given claim.