Toyota Lexus Correction

According to a Toyota PR flack, the accelerator pedals of the Lexus ES or IS models from Toyota are not really a problem.  Toyota maintains that it only royally screwed up the design of their floor mats.

Huh?

You might well, if inarticulately, ask.

Toyota has not come out openly on this, but it is believed that Toyota designed and built floor mats out of living material.  That's right: Living Floor Mats.

These Living Floor Mats thrive on crumbs from HoHo's and Caesar Chicken Wraps, consuming most of the latte you spill on top of them.  The original Living Floor Mats hated coffee and would spit it back at Toyota engineers, so a too-hasty redesign took place before the cars hit the streets.  And bridge piers.

Living Floor Mats are sedentary creatures, but a few mutants are known--now--to creep at the rate of one nano-inch per hour toward perfectly fine Lexus accelerator pedals.  The attraction is not clear, but it is probably something about scratching the Living Floor Mats back really sweetly.

Mind you, Living Floor Mats are used in the passenger footwell, too.  They are suspected of creeping forward and toward the foot-cooling/warming air vents.  No suffocations have been reported, except in cases when a Lexus flew off a bridge into a bay and that was more because of the water.

Toyota suggests putting the Living Floor Mats in you trunk.  Basically, this is a good idea, but don't expect all of them to stay there.  It is not their natural habitat and even a non-mutant Living Floor Mat may become restless and creep (their only means of motion) through the ski/golf club portal into your back seat.  You might still want to leave your smaller children, if shaped like a Twinkie, at home when you drive your Lexus ES or IS even if the Living Floor Mats are seemingly secure in the trunk.

To avoid that annoying risk, put half of a stale, but real Twinkie and a splash of any drink from Starbucks in the trunk with them.  Safety first.