Then there's the pull cord on the Toyota assembly lines. Someone sees something wrong, they reach up, pull the cord, the whole line stops until the issue is re

Then there's the pull cord on the Toyota assembly lines. Someone sees something wrong, they reach up, pull the cord, the whole line stops until the issue is resolved. Unlike American lines, where they defective cars would just roll on by. When Toyota and other Japanese makers started building in the USA, surprise, surprise, their cars made here were just as good as the ones from Japan.