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I do hate to be the responsible one, but this issue is bigger than Toyota. With the parts integration, just in time delivery, and decreased test times, these problems could be in any car companies inventory. Toyota's mistake was in down-playing and denying any problem. Ford , GM, Honda are all just a computer glitch away from being in the same boat. How companies deal with adversity is probably more telling than the adversity. Unfortunatly, Toyota has been slow to quit blaming the customer and start looking at it's products. It is much better to be proactive when you think there might be a problem, than to be reactive when people are in horrific crashes.