Car Accelerates On Its Own problems of the 2010 Toyota Venza

The contact owns a 2010 Toyota Venza. While beginning to driving the vehicle, it suddenly accelerated without warning. The contact depressed the brake pedal, but the vehicle did not reduce speed. The contact downshifted into neutral and turned off the engine. The contact coasted to a stop light intersection, but the vehicle did not come to a complete stop. The vehicle stalled on its own. The vehicle was towed to the dealer where it was diagnosed, but a failure could not be found. The service representative informed the contact that there was a faulty floormat installed. The vehicle was not repaired and the failure recurred. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 55,000.

My foot was on the brake and not on the gas pedal; I was coasting at a very low speed with the natural forward movement of the car carrying me into the garage (my driveway is only about two-car-lengths long). As I neared the garage door, now halfway open, my car suddenly revved to a high speed and was headed straight toward smashing into the garage door. As I said, my foot was on the brake and so I then put the other foot on the brake as well. Then, I slammed the car into neutral and heard the engine just rev at a very high speed. The sua seeemed to happen as I pushed the button on the door opener updated 4/7/2010 the consumer stated he experienced sudden acceleration. The dealer claimed the floor mat was the cause. Updated 06/04/10.

At 2 pm today, I had just returned from running errands and was pulling into my driveway and pushed the garage door opener. At that point, my foot was on the brake and not on the gas pedal; I was coasting at a very low speed with the natural forward movement of the car carrying me into the garage (my driveway is only about two-car-lengths long). As I neared the garage door, now halfway open, my car suddenly revved to a high speed and was headed straight toward smashing into the garage door. As I said, my foot was on the brake and so I then put the other foot on the brake as well. Then, I slammed the car into neutral and heard the engine just rev at a very high speed. I then slammed the car into reverse then park, again hearing the engine rev at a high speed. I then pushed the button to shut the car off. I immediately looked down and saw that the gas pedal was not stuck on any floor mat. And, as I said, my foot was on the brake and not on the gas pedal. I then sat there for a few minutes with my heart racing, thinking that if this had happened two minutes ago while on the road, I could have been killed. Or, if I hadnt been quick to act properly, my car would have ended up in my family roomwhat if I didnt have my foot already on the brakesurely I wouldnt have been able to stop the vehicle as quickly. I felt just like the woman at the congressional hearings, in tears, describing her experience with her Lexus. The car suddenly revved to a high speed, and wouldnt slow down in neutral or reverse or park. Shutting off the engine was the only option to make the high-speed throttling to stop. These facts are clear: the gas pedal was not stuck on any floor mat the gas pedal was not depressed immediately prior to the sudden acceleration the brake pedal was depressed immediately prior to the sudden acceleration the sudden acceleration was at very high rpms the high rpms wouldnt stop until the engine was shut off.