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It does benefit other auto-makers, but Toyota has admitted that there are flaws in its vehicles that can kill people. It doesn't mean that Toyotas aren't other
by mdasen 17y ago
It does benefit other auto-makers, but Toyota has admitted that there are flaws in its vehicles that can kill people. It doesn't mean that Toyotas aren't otherwise good, reliable cars. However, they covered up a fatal issue and they shouldn't be allowed to sell new cars with the issue and they should have to repair the ones with the issue.
Should Toyota be allowed to sell cars with this known fatal flaw? Of course not! Should they have to recall and repair cars with this known fatal flaw? Yes! Those are the things that have happened to Toyota. It's not some conspiracy case of the NHTSA trying to give domestic firms a leg up. It's a case of Toyota having to fix a fatal problem with its vehicles.
How is this different from the Ford/Firestone incident from the past? Was that the NHTSA trying to give Toyota a leg up by requiring Ford to fix that problem?
- grandalf 17y agoAll cars have fatal flaws, they just occur with some probability between 0 and 1. The flaw you are mentioning also has a probability of killing someone of between 0 and 1. The point is that car companies decide when to do a recall based on a cost/benefit analysis and not just because there is a low probability flaw that could occasionally be fatal.