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Toyota: Another week, another recall

Toyota has announced another worldwide recall, this time of 437,000 Prius hybrids built before January 2010, said Kelly Olsen in the Associated Press. “Toyota plans to fix a software glitch,” after drivers complained that the gas-electric car’s “antilock brakes seemed to fail momentarily while driving on bumpy roads.” The recall, which covers 155,000 cars sold in the U.S. and 233,000 in Japan, follows a massive worldwide recall earlier this month of eight Toyota models to fix “sticky gas-pedal systems.” But questions remain about how long the company had been aware of safety problems with its cars and whether it should have issued the recalls sooner.

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