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All I have to say is wow, I mean I hope every single engineer is fired that was involved in this screw up. Toyota is still afloat after the first screw up, and now this? I wonder how much longer they will be around for.
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all i could say is just epic fail for them.... i've wonder how they gonna deal with tesla with this situation
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but that's a lot of recalls though for a car company....
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Originally posted by vic1212 View Postbut that's a lot of recalls though for a car company....
According to the report from NHTSA & NASA, of the 58 cases of sudden unintended acceleration studied, 35 recorders showed that brakes were not applied, 14 cases involved partial braking, and one incident involved a case of pedal entrapment. But lets put this in perspective. This is a "new" technology. Well at least to the auto industry. Us in the aviation community have dealt with electronic throttle control systems of many different types for probably the last 20 years or so. That's just in the basic aircraft. I'm not talking high end stuff. I'm not sure what Toyota's throttle position sensors are based off of so I wont go into the design. Anyways look at the issue. A new technology gone bad. An idea that didn't work.
Lets travel back to 1973. GM wants to have their pick up trucks have a 40gal capacity. They over rule the engineers and install them on the outside of the protective frame rail. Engineers then offered a shield design to protect the fuel tank which was still turned down by GM execs. 10 years later after all the fire related deaths in these trucks were mounting GM did another test. Proving again that their design was causing the issues. GM did a cost benefit analysis and concluded that it was not worth it to spend $2.20 per vehicle to prevent the issue. autosafety.org PDF Now lets go 20 years ahead in 1993. NHTSA calls on GM to recall it's trucks from 73-87 and GM basicly tells them to fuck off. (Center for Auto Safety PDF).
The NHTSA begin recording fire related deaths in these trucks from 93-00 NHTSA PDF. All in all over 1800 people are estimated killed because of fire related deaths from GM's design. Chrysler back in the late 60's basically said it's a stupid idea and people were gonna die. Chrysler study PDF
Companies make mistakes. But Jesus Christ the hypocrisy that happened early this year is just embarrassing. Both from the media and US auto manufactures. Mostly from GM that I saw. Ford didn't play into it as much because they weren't on the chopping block. It's especially sad considering GM and Toyota had shared platforms and worked together on many different vehicles.
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which that brought up to the point of why the vibe was consider a recall cuz of the sudden acceleration that matrix has...
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Originally posted by vic1212 View Postwhich that brought up to the point of why the vibe was consider a recall cuz of the sudden acceleration that matrix has...
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idk sometimes this would just pull my hair off
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eh i'm just so over it...
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