No accidents or incidents are reported.
Toyota is recalling 94,000 2011 Model Year Sienna vehicles because the brakes might hang up and ultimately fail.
The latest safety defect from Japan’s once preeminent automaker arises from the faulty design of a brake light switch bracket, which, according to Toyota, is too close to the parking brake pedal and can become “deformed” if the driver applies the parking brake.
Toyota starting receiving reports of the problem one year ago.
Large questions remain as to how Japanese development engineers apparently missed this defect during testing, or procurement and manufacturing engineers missed it after production began.
It is the latest safety recall from a maker once world renowned for quality, but now also known for paying the largest fine in history to the U.S. National Highway Traffic safety Administration for covering up safety defects in violation of U.S. regulations.
