Tokyo, July 15 (EFE) .- The largest automaker in the world, Toyota Motor, called today to review some 625,000 units of cars hybrids worldwide by a software glitch that can reduce the motive power of the vehicle and even make it stop.
The company based in Aichi (central Japan) reported that the fault did not cause any accidents or injuries to occupants of vehicles.
The bug affects units manufactured between May 2010 and November 2014 models of the Prius + (marketed as Prius V and Prius Alpha in certain markets) and the hybrid Auris.
Of these, 160,000 were sold in Europe, 120,000 in North America and 340,000 in Japan, while the remaining 5,000 were sold in Africa and other markets.
The current software configuration of these cars can cause overheating of transistors.
If they are damaged it can cause, first, the lighting of several warning lights on the dashboard, as Toyota.
In most cases the vehicle go into a “safe mode”, reducing the driving force of the car and can drive only for a limited distance.
the most extreme case, Toyota says the hybrid system would be deactivated and the car would be stopped.
The company explained that the vehicles concerned must be brought to dealers in which they were purchased, where they update the software, an operation that takes about 30 minutes.
The problem has been detected in a time when Toyota, like other Japanese manufacturers, are still very present massive callbacks vehicles motivated by a fault in the airbags of the company Takata (Frankfurt: 7TK.F – news). that have caused at least 8 deaths worldwide
Already more than 50 million cars have had to be called to review worldwide affected by this failure of airbags Takata, which can be opened with excessive force and projecting metal fragments occupants.
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