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Toyota announced Wednesday it is recalling more than 1,600 of its full-size Tundra pickup trucks for problems related to its tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS). Like most Toyota vehicles, the trucks are equipped with an electronic tire pressure monitoring system that illuminates a warning signal when any of the 4 tires (5 tires, if the TPMS is fitted in the spare) are underinflated. Toyota said that that TPMS has not been properly calibrated in certain 2007-2011 Tundras, meaning drivers may not receive the warning they expect when one or more of their vehicle’s tires run low on air pressure.

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Federal transportation officials now say that 89 deaths have been linked to sudden unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles since 2000, up from 52 reported by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in March.

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Toyota has launched an investigation into a new report of sudden unintended acceleration involving a 2009 Camry. The car’s driver, Myrna Marseilles, 76, of Wisconsin, said that she was parking her car at the YMCA in Sheboygan Falls, Wis. when the car suddenly accelerated forward and crashed into a wall.

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Quality Control Systems, a statistical analysis and research firm based in Crownsville, Maryland, has been publishing new complaints of sudden, unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles as they are received by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The agency has taken a special interest in sudden acceleration incidents that occur after the vehicles involved have been “repaired” under one or more of the safety recalls.

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While Toyota Corollas have the potential to accelerate suddenly and unintentionally, now there is mounting concern that they may also do the opposite: stall out while in motion.

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In the quest to discover the cause of sudden, unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles, some scientists are looking to the sun. Subatomic particles bursting forth from our sun and other stars occasionally make it through the earth’s atmosphere, propelled by cosmic blast waves to the earth’s surface, where they can sometimes wreak havoc on our terrestrial electronic systems.

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When Toyota’s former president Katsuaki Watanabe met with American investors for the first time, he bragged about the accomplishments he made in his three short months with the company. Assuming the reigns of the world’s second-largest car company (GM was number one at the time), Watanabe wanted to be the leader who made Toyota number one, and he succeeded.

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced that it continues to receive reports from Toyota drivers that their cars are speeding out of control, even after the recall repairs have been performed on the vehicles. According to research conducted by the Associated Press, at least 15 owners of Toyota vehicles have filed complaints to the NHTSA saying that their cars and trucks continued to experience sudden unintended acceleration after the recall fixes were made.

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is finally taking some proactive measures to get to the bottom of an ongoing controversy involving Toyota cars and trucks: can the electronic throttle controls cause sudden unintended acceleration in the recalled vehicles? Federal regulators are now contacting owners of Toyota vehicles who reported experiencing sudden acceleration incidents after their cars were repaired under the current floor mat entrapment and sticky accelerator pedal recalls.

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The House Energy and Commerce Committee sharply criticized Toyota and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for their handling of the sudden acceleration problems that have afflicted Toyota vehicles for several years. The criticism was expressed in two separate letters delivered on the eve of the Committee’s recall hearings.

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