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Originally Posted by Coldpants
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.
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The investigations aren't over. So there is no way of knowing, at the moment, if Ford's Pinto had a bigger fatality rate than Toyota's effected models. Has Ford's hybrid killed people? Not that I'm aware of.
We don't know. Since you made the claim, why don't you give us a number.
That's probably because there was no public outcry for it to happen. The people were suprised that the supposedly safest, highest quality cars were killing people. Plus, they seem to be covering up the whole reason of why these problems were happening in the first place.
In 1949, Japan received a bailout and the Japanese government kicked out almost all foreign competition in order for Toyota to get backs on its feet again. I see your point, but I'm sure the Automotive Industry wasn't as heavily regulated as today's.