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Video: Toyota demonstrates safe hybrid vehicle stopping techniques

5 months ago (2010-03-12 09:41:48 UTC) by Mark Kleis via Leftlane - news, reviews, and info for the auto-industry

Toyota now has produced a high quality video that clearly demonstrates how to stop any Toyota hybrid vehicle in the event of unintended acceleration, following their distribution of a low budget video, apparently created by a Toyota car salesman...

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