Toyota probe on schedule, US car safety unit says

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Source: Reuters

By John Crawley

The U.S. government expects to meet its late-year deadline for determining whether throttles or other electronic systems could be linked to unintended acceleration in Toyota Motor Corp vehicles, a senior safety investigator said on Tuesday.

"We're working hard to get this to you," Richard Boyd, acting director of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's defect investigations unit, told the chair of a science panel that is looking at unintended acceleration industrywide, not just in Toyotas.

"It will be sooner rather than later," Boyd said at a public meeting of the National Academy of Science.

NHTSA has set a late fall timetable for releasing the preliminary findings of its investigation of Toyota throttles and other systems. U.S. space agency experts are assisting NHTSA and will release a separate report on more sophisticated aspects of auto electronics.

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