Car Accelerates On Its Own problems of the 2004 Toyota Prius

2004 Toyota Prius. Consumer states unintended acceleration the consumer stated the sudden acceleration happened three times, over a six year span. He managed to put the vehicle in neutral, coast to the side of the road, and turned the vehicle off. Once the vehicle was restarted, all worked fine. The consumer stated a few weeks ago his vehicle was about to reach 300,000 miles, as he reached for his camera, he realized the odometer never went past 299,999 miles. However, within five miles, the vehicle suddenly lost power brakes, the air condition stopped working, the hybrid drive shut off and the fan for the hybrid battery came on, as well as yellow and red lights appeared on the dash. Also, two warning graphics appeared on the navigation screen, one indicating trouble. The consumer pulled over, and shut the engine off. He then restarted the vehicle and everything went back to normal. It appeared that by shutting off the engine and restarting it, caused the main computer reboot. The consumer stated it continued several more times, until he arrived home. The dealer informed the consumer the vehicle was a large computer, and when one component stops working, such as the odometer, other components cease too. The dealer explained an odometer limit was placed on the vehicle by the factory.

1) events leading to failure: post-"90l campaign" recall maintenance performed on 2004 Toyota Prius, vehicle driving at ~15 mph on a flat clear road. 2) the failure: unintended acceleration observed. Accelerated, without accelerator depressed, to ~27 mph. Brakes successfully applied. Release of brake resumed unintended acceleration. "rode the brake to deliver vehicle to safe parking location. Consequence: unintended acceleration controllable by braking. 3) nothing has yet been done to correct failure. Vehicle has not been driven or moved since failure, since deemed unsafe to drive by owner pending any useful response to notification of this incident by Toyota inc. (no useful response as of yet. ) the dealer was unable to duplicate the consumers concern. Updated 08/30/10 update ivoq 09/01/jb.

The contact owns a 2004 Toyota Prius. The contact was driving approximately 40 mph when the vehicle suddenly accelerated and crashed into a vehicle as she attempted to slow down. The air bags did not deploy and the contact was injured. The vehicle was destroyed. The failure mileage was approximately 74,000.

While driving to work this morning in rush hour traffic, my car suddenly accelerated as I was merging to my left. As I was merging I felt the car accelerate and the decrease in pressure against my foot as the pedal depressed on it's own. I was able to regain control of the car after forcefully stepping on the brakes twice, at which time the gas pedal came back up.

S10 appropriate handling re Toyota vehicles recall, owner of a 2004 Toyota Prius experienced sudden unintended acceleration. The consumer stated as he was driving, he approached a slower moving vehicle, but when he attempted to apply the brake, the vehicle instead accelerated. As he hit the brake harder, the vehicle accelerated even more. The consumer had to avoid an accident by crossing over the double yellow line into oncoming traffic. The consumer managed to avoid an accident and quickly moved back over to the correct side of the road. The consumer stated the gas pedal was not stuck as Toyota is claiming there is a quick fix and placing the blame on the accelerator pedal. Prior to the incident, the consumer stated as he was waiting in a line, with his foot firmly on the brake, the engine seemed to suddenly rev up and the vehicle lurched forward but did not move due to his foot being firmly on the brake. The consumer also stated on several occasions when he hit the brake the radio and air condition would come on. The dealer claimed there was nothing wrong and that the consumer must have hit the radio and climate control buttons on the steering wheel. The consumer believed that the braking system influences the electronics or computer and causes the acceleration of the vehicle.

The contact owns a 2004 Toyota Prius. He experienced sudden acceleration twice on January 16, 2008 and March 6, 2008. While he was driving at approximately 30 mph the vehicle suddenly accelerated up to 100 mph. He continuously applied pressure to the brake pedal until he was able to bring the vehicle to a complete stop. The vehicle was towed to the dealer. The dealer stated that the vehicle accelerated, because the floor mat was trapped under the gas pedal. The dealer replaced and secured the floor mat. The manufacturer was contacted. The manufacturer stated there were no related recalls. He has not experienced the failure again. The failure mileage was 42,154 miles and the current mileage was 61,000.

I was entering a major highway from a parking lot when the engine suddenly accelerated at full speed. Visibility was good. There was a small pothole so I did touch the accelerator. Next I was in the middle of the highway & hit by a car going 65mph. I do not think I hit the accelerator rather than the brake although that was the only explanation at the time.