Toyota Asks For Sudden Acceleration Lawsuits To Be Thrown Out

Toyota has asked a federal judge in Southern California to toss out hundreds of lawsuits that allege sudden acceleration problems in its cars, saying they are not based on fact. The motion comes the same week, however, that the automaker conceded that there had been a bug in the software used to read crash data from the "black boxes" in its vehicles. More than 300 "sudden acceleration" lawsuits against the company have been consolidated for pretrial rulings in the US District Court in Santa...Full Story