đź“° Auto News BREAKING: FBI Raids Three Toyota Suppliers In Detroit
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Prop up all the US automakers with bailout funds and RAID the offices of any import companies that dare to compete! Great plan.
Ding Ding Ding....This is political grandstanding. It's pure BS and the treatment is unfair compared to other safety recalls. In fact, if the Government wants to investigate something look no further than the NHTSA!!
That being said, Toyota could be doing a much better PR job.
Interesting..
"NHTSA officials told investigators that the agency doesn't employ any electrical engineers or software engineers."
So says The Washington Post, in a revelation that's at least shocking if nothing else. Consider your car for a moment. How many electrical connections and silicon bits are there making the whole kit-n'-kaboodle operate? Plenty, right? In fact, The Car Connection estimates that the average "modern luxury car has something close to 100 million lines of software code in it, running on 70 to 100 microprocessors." Though the quote about the government safety agency came out in the government hearings on Toyota safety, that figures to be worrisome news to all motorists, as modern vehicles from all manufacturers are more or less rolling computers, and their very movement is governed by computers that NHTSA apparently cannot begin to analyze – at least internally.
Hopefully, the report regarding the lack of electrical and software engineers at NHTSA was either misunderstood or incorrect. We have a feeling that's likely the case – in fact, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in his testimony on Capitol Hill today that the agency does at least have access to such engineers.
UPDATE: During today's remarks, LaHood said there was some confusion in his comments yesterday about a lack of electrical engineers. He has yet to divulge how many engineers NHTSA employs and there's still some question about software engineers. Updates to follow as we learn more
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/02/24/report-nhtsa-doesnt-have-any-software-or-electrical-engineers/
"NHTSA officials told investigators that the agency doesn't employ any electrical engineers or software engineers."
So says The Washington Post, in a revelation that's at least shocking if nothing else. Consider your car for a moment. How many electrical connections and silicon bits are there making the whole kit-n'-kaboodle operate? Plenty, right? In fact, The Car Connection estimates that the average "modern luxury car has something close to 100 million lines of software code in it, running on 70 to 100 microprocessors." Though the quote about the government safety agency came out in the government hearings on Toyota safety, that figures to be worrisome news to all motorists, as modern vehicles from all manufacturers are more or less rolling computers, and their very movement is governed by computers that NHTSA apparently cannot begin to analyze – at least internally.
Hopefully, the report regarding the lack of electrical and software engineers at NHTSA was either misunderstood or incorrect. We have a feeling that's likely the case – in fact, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in his testimony on Capitol Hill today that the agency does at least have access to such engineers.
UPDATE: During today's remarks, LaHood said there was some confusion in his comments yesterday about a lack of electrical engineers. He has yet to divulge how many engineers NHTSA employs and there's still some question about software engineers. Updates to follow as we learn more
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/02/24/report-nhtsa-doesnt-have-any-software-or-electrical-engineers/
How many cases are there? You have a better chance of winning the lottery.
yeah well who knows whats really going on, Toyota claimed there weren't any issues with software, and it was a hardware issue. What if you couldn't shift into neutral because the trans computer wouldn't allow you to because the safety failsafe, had failed? And what if you couldn't turn off the car because of the push button start? It's all electrical so who knows what really happens when the electrical systems fail or go haywire? So I really wouldn't judge until people know exactly whats going on
Four words..."PRESS THE BRAKE PEDAL"! It's not like these cars are 500hp monsters, the brakes will still stop the car with the vehicle at WOT; it will take a longer distance but the car will stop! However, that first second or so of disorientation can cause some major issues. A car can reach 20mph in just 2-3 seconds in less then 60'...
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