Toyota Drivers Uniquely Klutzy, U.S. Gov't Finds

On February 8th we got the news about what caused all those runaway Toyotas and Lexuses- turned out it was klutzes stepping on the gas pedal, which they thought was the brake.

Ray LaHood, an Illinois machine hack pol elevated to head of the Department of Transportation by Chicago machine politician Barack ("Pied Piper") Obama, announced the results of a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study, written with the help of a NASA engineer no less! (The same NASA whose space shuttles keep blowing up in the sky, so you know these are some crackerjack engineers.)

LaHood, his NASA engineer, and the corporate media didn't bother explaining why klutzes apparently ONLY DRIVE TOYOTAS, since OTHER MAKES OF CARS didn't have the problem of uncontrolled accelerations which couldn't be stopped.

Actually the study gave 3 reasons for the runaway cars. Pedals stuck on floor mats, pedals sticking, and drivers desperately stomping on the accelerators to try and stop their cars.

Hack pol LaHood announced, "The jury is back. The verdict is in. There is no electronic-based cause for unintended high speed acceleration in Toyotas. Period." So now shut up.

SO- Toyota recalled millions of their cars to do what, straighten out floor mats? And DOT fined them millions of dollars because their floor mats got in the way?

In fact, at one point last year, LaHood warned Toyota owners it was too dangerous to even drive their cars, and they should take them back to the dealers immediately.

One key fact, that the New York Times buried in their favorite hiding place- the 3rd to last paragraph of the story, which was itself hidden in the business section to keep most of the general public from reading it- is this: an earlier gov't "preliminary examination" "found only one instance in which an accelerator pedal became trapped under a floor mat and none in which a pedal became stuck or sprung back too slowly." "A likely cause of the unintended accelerations - pushing on the accelerator instead of the brake."
Which means ALL BUT ONE case were caused by KLUTZ DRIVERS, according to the U.S. Government and its "experts." They gave Toyota's software a clean bill of health.
The article made of point of noting LaHood's irritation when a reporter interpreted the report to say that drivers stepped on the accelerator. "Pedal misapplication" he peevishly corrected, a political euphemism to try and camouflage the fact that the Government is calling the victims dimwits.

UPDATE: A couple of weeks later, Toyota is recalling 2 million more cars- for floormat adjustments. They didn't say it's because of 2 million klutzy drivers.