didn't notice before, but the CNN article has a link to a PDF report that gives a lot more details. https://www.daihatsu.com/news/2023/report_1_E.pdf https://w

didn't notice before, but the CNN article has a link to a PDF report that gives a lot more details. https://www.daihatsu.com/news/2023/report_1_E.pdf https://www.daihatsu.com/news/2023/report_1_E.pdf Here's the longer description of the same thing. It sure sounds more serious. > When applying for certification of side collision tests for vehicles developed by Daihatsu for overseas markets (four models), the person in charge of conducting the tests, concerned that it would be problematic if the development and sales schedule was not met due to the failure of the certification tests, made manual modifications on the certified prototype vehicles that differed from those of mass-produced vehicles, such as cutting the back of the plastic front door trims to prevent sharp edges in the event of a collision, in order to ensure that the vehicles would pass the certification tests.