Toyota’s Murky Data

You know, the fact that Toyota is being secure with the information that can be downloaded from my vehicle makes me love them even more. Thank you, Toyota, for keeping my privacy private and not being brainwashed into the idea that we need to expose every detail of our lives for "privacy".

If there is a problem to be solved, do some real sleuthing people. Quit relying on technology to do the work for you.

The government most certainly didn't let Ford/Firestone resolve the problem. There were investigations and hearings and calls for congressional action. The end result was the TREAD Act which included government mandates for tire pressure monitor systems on all vehicles costing several hundred dollars a vehicle when you could already pick up a tire pressure monitor at your local Wal-Mart for $2 - it's called a tire gauge. But apparently congress considers the people too stupid to use one.

Have you seen the movie WAG THE DOG? The economy continues to be in free falll. Sure, polititians have decaqlred the recession over, but in reality unemployment continues to increase, albeit at a slower rate, buit it is still increasing. So it is natural for polititians to draw attention away from themselves and to some articial bad guy. The tail is wagging the dog.

While the economny remains in a free fall and the polititians have no clue as to resolving the probleM (other than making a bigger and even more innefficienbt government), it is their best interests to draw attention away from their inadequcies and focu on some external "bad guy." So Toyota is being focused on. When it was Ford and Firestone that caused the Explorer mess, the government allowed them to resolve the issue. But now that the government has declared the recession over, even though job losses are still increasiing (increasin at a slower rate but \increasin), the taiil is wagging the dog.

iits a shame that as soon as this stuff hit the news, everybody started bashing TOYOTA. What almost nobody hears , is that the biggest problem is with a gas pedal made by a company out of Canada called CTS. It can become mechanically stuck or slow to return. But still iin very rare cases.

Its a shame that since all of this hit the news, that everybody wants to bash TOYOTA. But what nobody really hears is that the biggest problem is with a gas pedal made by a company out of canada called CTS. It can become mechanically stuck or slow to return . But still in very rare cases.

I feel and have always felt Toyota has a habbit of hiding and lieing about issuse nobody knows about. They are great at giving people what they want at first like quality and realiablity that helped them move past the American car makers. However once they convinced the consumer to buy nothing but a Toyota is when then went on there little journey of behind the scenes cost cutting at the consumers expense and there true colors of Japanese arogence came out with it in there take it or leave it phliosphy.
I also feel, no I believe Consumer Magazine should also be held accountable for alot of these actions by Toyota, there the ones that conatantly praised this company to the ground through there crack research group, who by the way went underground. They should not have the right to tell people waht the perfect buy is, they should only be able to report on what an item has more of than it's competition after they research it.

Really people? Come on...the full detailed police report on the officer and his family in California indicated that the dealership had installed all weather (rubber) floormats from an SUV into the Lexus sedan the family had rented. The wrong floormat caused this accident and is what sparked the flood of media coverage. If this officer was not familiar with the newer push button start feature, I can understand why he couldn't shut the vehicle off. However, what I couldn't understand, why (with all the "training" he supposedly had) could he not simply put the car in neutral? I know several Ford employees, what they can't understand (and you should question) is when their SUV rollover problem was happening, they had seen several crash vehicles come into their dealership as a direct result of the recall, but you never heard the Secretary of Transportation stating on live television to stop driving Ford vehicles. I've talked with a couple of Toyota dealership service employees as well, and they've never seen a vehicle that they could make the accelerator pedal stick. Also, take into thought last year's "cash for clunkers" program, Toyota had the most success out of this program designed to pump up buyer confidence, and revitalize the AMERICAN economy. So now that the government owns GM (who didn't hardly make a dime on the clunker program) and they have a bad reputation of quality to overcome, why not make the top dog look bad to sway buyers back to the American market? Notice how GM offered an extra $1000.00 on a Toyota trade in? OPEN YOUR EYES!!!!!! This media fiasco against Toyota is nothing more than Detroit pumping money into the right politician's pocket.

Wow how surprising that the rep from Michigan is leading the charge on getting Toyota to hand over their black box data. Don't think for a minute that he's not looking out for the best interests of the big three in his homestate. This is a government witch hunt plain and simple. Discredit Toyota and you increase market share for the mostly government owned U.S. automakers (Ford excluded).

all i have to say is this is about racial superiority....whats wrong with the world today is exactly this...you are so caught up in this racial mess that you cant see that nobody is perfect. oh and on a side note: i am american and i seriously dont hold every jap accountable for pearl harbor, most of those men are long gone...and thats like saying we or present day americans are all responsible for hiroshima and nagasaki...no we arent and im sure you wouldnt think you were reponsible right? but you sure will be the first to point a finger at every jap and say,"oh i bet it was you...you were responsible for pearl harbor." jeez cant we all just be proper adults

Toyota is proving what some of us have long known. Asian superiority is a myth. Everyone thinks the Asian mind is somehow superior to the Caucasian mind at math, logic, engineering etc. It is not. It is the herd mentality of the Asian family culture that gives this ability. They circle close and support each other, but shun all outside. Work around them and you will find that their English skills are very good, even rewarded within the Asian community, but they never speak proper amongst other English speakers. The Japan That Can Say NO, needs to be taught to say "Yes Sir!!" to American regulators and legislators, and the people of this country who have bought the Asian superiority myth for too long. Yes, remember Pearl Harbor and believe that they are indeed continuing to sneak upon our shores a deah and destruction brought on by our own kindness.

What do you expect from a country that brought you Pearl Harbor, the Bataan death march, and the raping of China. They will not even admit any of these happening. There class books hardly mention them, and when they do, it is almost in passing.

Many Japanese might have started loosing a confidence to know Toyota's massive RECALLS of their defective cars, which I feel like this is a nightmare The End Of Toyota Safety Story. Totoya must disclose all data contained in EDR whenever it helps improving safety and whenever it helps those who lost thier family by accidents with Toyota vehicles.