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Originally Posted by Dragoneye
People have died. And the company responsible is being dirty and absolutely irresponsible in their handling of the situation. They're lying, they're cheating, and they're dragging their feet with millions of people in their defunct vehicles.
The NHTSA is doing their job for a change. This is precisely what they're there for. Don't turn this into a tin-foil-hat discussion. There is no corruption or conspiracy theory. Toyota was being (is being!) bad, and the NHTSA caught'em.
Oh, and for the record....Toyota has NEVER been the #1 car company in the USA. And GM issued their own large-scale recall earlier this month.
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The NHTSA response is unprecedented in '78 Mother Jones magazine obtained the cost-benefit analysis that it said Ford had used to compare the cost of an $11 repair against the monetary value of a human life. But the NHTSA had to be pressured into asking for a recall for a flaw that lead to a higher fatality rate than today's problem. Skip forward to today Ford had its own brake problems with its hybrids similar to Toyota. But other than a blurb no press no outcry no public hearings.
I did some research and Toyota is really 1980's 1984 GM models: Regal, Century; El Camino, Caballero, Monte Carlo, Malibu, Cutlass, Le Mans, and Grand Prix had a small random wheel issue. Some times they would fall off. I wonder how many people that killed.
There were no congressional hearings in either case, nor did any CEO's go to congress to apologize.
And as far as the Tin foil hat comment. GM and the other two have pulled crap like this before. IN 1948 they used influence with a senator to bring false charges against Tucker in order to put him out of business rather than follow his lead to build safer cars to compete.