Industry supports black box, brake override system

AP - A trade group representing Detroit automakers and Toyota Motor Corp. plans to pledge support for requiring brake override systems and vehicle "black boxes" on all new vehicles as Congress develops new safety improvements following Toyota's large recalls.

A trade group representing Detroit automakers and Toyota plans to pledge support for requiring brake override systems and vehicle "black boxes" on all new vehicles

There's one safety feature that Toyota could have had in its cars for years that would have stopped many, perhaps even most, cases of unintended acceleration -- it's called 'brake override.'

Japanese carmaker Toyota says it will add a brake-override system to all new vehicles as it seeks to recover from a global car recall.

General Motors announced Monday that it will expand the use of brake override technology to increase safety and ease concerns about defects across the automobile industry.

Reuters - Toyota Motor Co ignored evidence of acceleration problems in its vehicles for most of the past decade and failed to install a brake override system it knew could have prevented accidents, an amended federal lawsuit filed on Monday claims.

Beleaguered Toyota said Wednesday it would fit all new models with a safety system that cuts engine power to prevent runaway car accidents behind its global recall of millions of vehicles.Toyota, its image for reliability battered by the crisis, also said its chief Akio Toyoda would head a task force to improve quality control and enable the group to respond more quickly to reports of defects.The new brake over-ride system to be introduced worldwide would cut engine power when the accelerator and brake pedal are depressed at the same time.