Toyota says it's still selling cars involved in Thursday's recall of 2.3 million vehicles with throttles that could stick open.
Toyota's U.S. safety spokesman John Hanson said Friday that new vehicles with the potentially faulty accelerator pedal assemblies should be risk-free for awhile because the problem is caused by wear.
"It is something that happens over the use of the vehicle. Out of the box, the new vehicle works perfectly fine," he says.
The suspect pedal assemblies from CTS Automotive Products, based at Elkhart, Ind., appear to have worn prematurely, he says. Over time, the action of the vehicle's throttle pedal begins to feel rough, then the pedal fails to return quickly when the driver takes his or her foot off the pedal. "Worst case, it sticks open," he says.
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