It Turns Out Toyotas Aren't Auto-Accelerating Death Machines, After All
John Cook · 02/08/11 05:13PMRemember last spring, when the nation was seized by the fear that every late-model Toyota was on the verge of surging forward on an uncontrollable terror-drive? Well, NASA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration looked into it, and it turns out people were probably just accidentally pressing the gas instead of the brake. Sorry!