Safety agency rejects inquiry into acceleration
DETROIT — U.S. safety regulators have rejected an electrical engineer’s request to investigate low-speed unintended acceleration in Toyota and Lexus cars.
The petition was the latest in a string of claims that Toyota vehicles can accelerate on their own.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said that three crashes cited in the engineer’s request are consistent with the driver mistakenly hitting the gas pedal instead of the brake. Gopal Raghavan of Thousand Oaks, Calif., filed a petition in June.