Toyota problems

Let me get this straight; Tens of millions of vehicles sold worldwide. A couple hundred report some issues. Less than 20 incidents resulting in death or injury. Do I have the Toyota issues right so far?

With all this in mind, Toyota took immediate and decisive action and voluntarily recalled millions of their vehicles. Many of the models had no reports and were done as a precaution.

Toyota apparently has a similar view to mine. One death or injury is too much and all manufacturers should strive for zero tolerance however I believe that most engineers (people) make some assumptions in their design. The main assumption being that the people that purchase their cars, by the very virtue that they have a drivers license and have earned enough credit or money to purchase the vehicle, are not complete and utter morons. Evidently this has been one of their biggest errors.

All manufacturers have resisted a simple solution available for years. Re-program the computers so that when pressure is applied to brakes, acceleration reduces. Moron factor is greatly reduced.

In the interest of safety, let me propose another possible solution that Toyota put the following warning label on their vehicles;

In the event of a drive train failure, that is the thing that makes the thingy your sitting in move toward the things in the glass in front of you, follow the following steps:

1. Put foot on brake (that square pedal down by your feet that is to the left, cookie side, of the long pedal on the right, milk side.)
2. Press down on pedal you put your foot on in step 1.
3. Take that stick like thing on your right (milk side) and move it forward from being next to the D to being next to the N.
4. Looking out that glass stuff in the front, turn the big wheel in front of you slightly to right to pull off of grayish black stuff. Important: try not to hit light grey metal thingie approx 6 to 10 feet to right (milk side) of big grayish black stuff.,

Thousands of people die or are maimed or injured each years by cars that nobody claims have safety issues however are due to their own actions or inaction's. Statistically, one or two models/makes of vehicles is sure to appear on a list of these incidents and probably at a number somewhat higher than 20. Are we recalling all those.

In a period of economic hardship, where unemployment is at it's highest in decades, we need to do our best to buy American made products that employ American people with livable wages. Toyota is an American auto maker that DID NOT take bailout money and until these recent incidents was still doing quite well, and in many area still is. Even with the issues, polls show that 60% of current Toyota owners would buy one again.

Someone of a conspiracy leaning might start to wonder if GM, a company that took bailout money much of which was sent overseas for their manufacturing, may have had a hand in rigging this. Silly conspiracy theorists.

Even someone not prone to conspiracy might wonder when one of the few recent incidents reported, in a vehicle that was not on the list of vehicles with issues, suddenly was spotted by an officer weaving in and out of traffic at a high rate of speed. When a traffic stop was initiated, motioned to the officer that he could not slow down. The officer pulled in front of the vehicle and used his to slow the vehicle down. Guess it was better than the excuse "I was had to pee and needed to get to a restroom". "I have a defective Toyota. It was the big manufactures fault. There was no warning label." sounds so much better. Besides, he got his 15 minutes of fame Warhol promised, and on national TV to boot.

See? My way is the perfect solution. Moron notified, liability reduced. You still need the ability to read to get a license in most states, right?