Car Accelerates On Its Own problems of the 2016 Toyota Prius

While slowing and pulling into a parking space, in front of the dentist office where my wife had an appointment, the vehicle suddenly accelerated. It jumped the curb, and she steered hard right to avoid the building directly in front OH the parking space. She sideswiped the front of 2 vehicles parked next to the space she was moving into, and the car continued toward the street. It hit the curb going out of the parking lot and the car finally stopped. A person came to the drivers side of the car and asked my wife if she was ok, and said she should turn the car off - which she did.

Spontaneous acceleration incident. I was slowly pulling into a parking space in a parking garage. As I straightened it out to complete the maneuver, the car took off on its own and hit the wall of the parking garage there was some damage to the front end. A similar incident occurred once before with no damage. Toyota has had recalls in prior years for this problem - broken throttle return switch - but they insist this isn't the problem here. Essentially they are claiming this didn't happen, that what I experienced with the car just taking off on its own didn't happen. The car isn't safe to drive without getting this repaired, but they claim it doesn't need repair. In their response letter, Toyota said, "the event data recorder (edr) recorded that there was accelerator pedal application and no brake application leading up to the impact. " of course there was no brake application, there was no time to apply the brake! the car took off like a bat out of hell and rammed into the wall in 2-3 seconds! this is not only a danger for me and my car but could be for other Prius owners as well. I have a youtube video on how to do the repair but I can not upload it here.

Toyota Prius. Consumer writes in regards to unintended acceleration. The consumer the vehicle accelerated on it's own striking 2 vehicles.