Driver error to blame for crashes of Toyota vehicles?

[Weiming]

Interesting findings so far based on actual study and proper investigation, not reactionist comments, hearsays, anecdotes etc.:

 

WSJ article

[SimonTan]

Now that GM and other car companies in US are recovering well. So it's time to slowly report the real news.

But the damage has being done.

So what there is no weapon of mass destruction, the damage has being done!

So what there is still 10% unemployment and weak economy, the blame on europe and china damage has being done!

 

All along I still think it's a master plan to destroy jap car industries!

 

 

[Requiemdk]

I've always thought that those runaway accelerator incidents had more to do with the driver than the car, but that's indeed a world-record high level of kayu-ness if true. At least over here our drivers just jam the accelerator long enough to crash into a lamp pole or tree in a carpark only. The drivers there can jam the accelerator until they hit their vehicle's max speed one. Power....

 

What next? Will our cars come with big stonking indicator lights on the dashboard yelling at us to remind us which pedal we're pressing?

[TandemAssassin]

  On 7/14/2010 at 1:50 PM, Requiemdk said:

I've always thought that those runaway accelerator incidents had more to do with the driver than the car, but that's indeed a world-record high level of kayu-ness if true. At least over here our drivers just jam the accelerator long enough to crash into a lamp pole or tree in a carpark only. The drivers there can jam the accelerator until they hit their vehicle's max speed one. Power....

 

What next? Will our cars come with big stonking indicator lights on the dashboard yelling at us to remind us which pedal we're pressing?

 

There is a simple solution on the market already; it is called the manual gearbox. Maybe US regulators ought to ban Auto and DSG type boxes?

 

If you wanna jam brake, you will clutch in. Even if you hit the wrong pedal, it is not so jialat.

[Walkingtree]

I think the last part of the report is poignant for consideration.

 

Quote from the WSJ article: Ms. Marseille sticks by her story. "It makes me very angry when someone tells me, 'She probably hit the gas pedal instead,' because I think it's a sexist comment, an ageist comment," she said.

[So_nice]

dog eat dog world.

[Wishcumstrue]

  On 7/14/2010 at 1:42 PM, SimonTan said:

Now that GM and other car companies in US are recovering well. So it's time to slowly report the real news.

But the damage has being done.

So what there is no weapon of mass destruction, the damage has being done!

So what there is still 10% unemployment and weak economy, the blame on europe and china damage has being done!

 

All along I still think it's a master plan to destroy jap car industries!

Nicely put, although I doubt there were any conspiracy plan to destroy Toyota since Americans rice bowl will be threaten too.

 

So after all the SUA class actions suits, Toyota recalls , the Lexus crash that killed US patrolman, the Prius "run-away" and all the cries and accusations in the US Congressional hearing, now after spending so much taxpayer's $, NHTSA found many of the case involved are drivers error?!

 

One thing that I learn from Toyota is -> never-ever blame your customer no matter how stupid they are