The Fort Worth Star-Telegram published a guest column by Texas Watch Executive Director Alex Winslow discussing the Toyota safety debacle and how the comapny should have to face an impartial judge and citizen jury – not an underfunded and over-lobbied government bureaucracy. Check it out.
Do you hear that sound? It is the ringing of alarm bells [...]
Distracted driving has become such a big problem that the federal government has devoted an entire Web site to the issue. It’s an offshoot of the Department of Transportation, and has some interesting information on it. Check it out at Distraction.gov. Here’s the site’s description:
Distracted Driving
At the U.S. Department of Transportation, we heard America’s call [...]
Excellent news from the Transportation Department: Total traffic deaths declined in 2009 to 33,963. That’s a decrease of nearly 9% since 2008, and a continuation of decreases since 2005, when total traffic deaths were 43,510. It’s the lowest total number of deaths since 1954.
Factors possibly contributing to the decrease in deaths are greater enforcement of [...]
I am really feeling sorry for Toyota these days. They’re getting no relief at all from the flood of bad publicity (including on this blog). Here’s the latest after the Prius incident in California:
Coverage of Toyota’s recall crisis surged again this week on reports of another case of a runaway Toyota vehicle, even as Toyota [...]
Toyota just can’t get out of the headlines. Now more bad news as reported in the Los Angeles Times: Several Toyota workers sent a memo to their bosses in 2006 warning that the auto company was too focused on meeting demand rather than meeting safety standards (my paraphrase). The memo pointed out that from 2000 [...]
It appears that Toyota may not be out of the woods yet. More than 50 owners have complained to safety officials that they are still experiencing runaway acceleration even after their vehicles were repaired by Toyota for sticking throttles. So far as I know, these continuing problems have not been verified by the government or [...]
The Obama administration is considering requiring all automobiles to contain a brake override system intended to prevent sudden acceleration episodes like those that have led to the recall of millions of Toyotas, the Transportation secretary, Ray LaHood, said Tuesday. This was reported in the New York Times, and excerpts of the article follow.
This sounds like [...]
A law took effect this week that will affect young drivers getting their licenses for the first time. Until now, driver education classes were required only for drivers under the age of 18. Now those between ages 18 and 24 must must take a six-hour driver education course before they can receive licenses. This change [...]
The CBS Evening News (2/25, story 7, 3:30, Couric) reported that Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda wept as he thanked a group of Toyota dealers in Washington for “supporting him through the company’s troubles” and said “his company has to rethink its operations after 8.5 million vehicles were recalled for unintended acceleration. All of this has focused [...]
Here’s the latest wrap-up of news about Toyota’s problems:
The CBS Evening News (2/21, story 3, 2:10, Mitchell) reported that according to the AP, “Toyota officials boasted last summer they saved $100 million back in 2007 when negotiating a limited recall of certain models with the federal government.” The piece notes that NHTSA “has received more than 2,000 [...]
Toyota said Monday it has received a federal grand jury subpoena for documents relating to the unintended acceleration of its vehicles and braking systems in the Toyota Prius. The subpoena was from the Southern District of New York.
When will the bad news end for Toyota?! Now there is talk, as reported at TheWeeklyDriver.com, of a recall of the Corolla — Toyota’s most popular vehicle. The problem apparently lies in the power steering of 2009 and 2010 models. More than 35 million Corollas have been sold since the model was introduced in 1966. [...]
Here’s the latest roundup of Toyota recall news reports:
NBC Nightly News (2/15, story 7, 0:25, Williams) reported, “Federal safety officials said today the number of deaths that could be linked to sudden acceleration of Toyotas is now up to 34, based on consumer complaints they’ve received. The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration says it’s normal [...]
With the big auto recalls from Toyota, Honda, and other companies in the news recently, people are wondering how the recalls or defective parts might affect their insurance coverage. The ABC News Web site had a good article about the questions consumers are asking of their insurance carriers. Here are a few excerpts:
Many drivers of [...]
I know this is becoming the “Toyota Recall Blog,” but this is important information for anyone who drives a Toyota or Lexus. The problems that have been announced can lead to very serious accidents. If you have one of the recalled vehicles please get it repaired immediately.
Heavy coverage of Toyota’s safety issues is continuing, with [...]
Here’s a wrap-up on Toyota stories from yesterday:
The CBS Evening News (2/8, story 4, 2:00, Hatton) reported, “On Wednesday, congressional hearings will look into when the company and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration knew something was wrong with Toyota’s vehicles. State Farm Insurance alerted the government as far back as 2007 about sticking gas [...]
According to published reports, Toyota is planning to recall some 300,000 Prius vehicles worldwide to repair a brake problem. The manufacturer supposedly will notify the U.S. and Japanese governments today. Toyota has already recalled more than 7 million other cars for repairs in the U.S. and other countries over a sticky accelerator and floor mats that can [...]
Poor Toyota. The company finally comes up with a proposed solution to the sticking throttle problem, and now they have a brake problem with the hugely popular Prius model. Here are excerpts from an article in the New York Times about the Prius problems:
No sooner had Toyota dealerships begun to repair accelerator pedals on millions [...]
The federal government is really pushing Toyota to correct the sticking throttle problems that have plagued the car company for weeks, if not much longer. Here are the opening paragraphs of an article in the New York Times:
The Transportation Department scrambled on Wednesday to keep up the pressure on Toyota, with the agency’s head at [...]
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