It seems that Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak, better known as “The Woz”, has a problem with his 2010 Prius. Under certain cruise control conditions, it accelerates wildly. Luckily, he can reproduce the problem repeatedly – and safely. In a statement at Discovery forum 2010, he said, “this is software. It’s not a bad accelerator pedal. It’s very scary, but luckily for me I can hit the brakes.” This would indicate that Toyota has more than just bad hardware to contend with. The interesting thing is, Wozniak said he spent 3 months trying to get Toyota and the NHTSA to look into the problem, with no result.
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