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Toyota Admits to Misleading Consumers on Safety

posted by janrinok on Sunday March 23 2014, @05:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the money-talks dept.

n1 writes:

"U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced a criminal wire fraud charge against Toyota for defrauding consumers by issuing misleading statements about safety issues in Toyota and Lexus vehicles.

On the same day, The Department of Justice also announced a deferred prosecution agreement with Toyota under which the automotive company accepts a $1.2bn penalty and admits that it misled U.S. consumers by concealing and making deceptive statements about two safety issues affecting its vehicles, each regarding unintended acceleration. If Toyota conforms to all the terms of the agreement, the government will defer prosecution on the information for three years and then seek to dismiss the charge."

 
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  • (Score: 1) by adolf on Monday March 24 2014, @12:52AM

    by adolf (1961) on Monday March 24 2014, @12:52AM (#20017)

    They shouldn't be on the road for safety reasons. No excuses. Intentionally going out there with no idea what you're doing is exactly as irresponsible as driving drunk. Exactly the same scenario.

    It might be different now, but dealing with sudden, unwanted acceleration was something that was not covered when I went to a private, state-licensed driver's education school to get my license around a couple of decades ago.

    Lots of other emergency situations were discussed. Sudden acceleration? Nope. Not at all.

    Before we can logically expect someone to be able to do a thing, we must first afford them the opportunity to learn that thing.

    Decades ago I had an ancient carb car and those had issues when cold or not perfectly maintained as teen driver clunkers often are, and one time I stalled it on the road while making a turn, popped it into neutral to restart the engine (starter won't crank unless neutral or park) and once it started flipped it back into drive while still moving. It was certainly the most exciting part of the entire trip, but no big deal. Probably lost about 5 MPH and the whole process only took 50 feet maybe, didn't even coast to a stop.

    Nice move; excellence in motion. But it was a straight-forward solution to a problem which is exactly the opposite of what is being discussed. Worst case for you was some cussing with restarting a stalled car at the side of the road; worst case in unintended acceleration is a bit different -- obviously.

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