Runaway Hysteria
Bullshit:
STOP. Just fucking stop. Her "testimony" should be thrown out on the basis of that last sentence alone.
Toyota has some problems, and they'll fix them. They have to if they want to keep their brand loyalty intact. Some of those problems may -- I say may -- be related to the PCM, (automobile computer).
But if you seriously expect me to believe that the emergency brake -- which is a purely mechanical system independent of the primary brakes and the PCM -- completely failed to operate, and that the car was physically shifted into reverse gear to no effect... well, I ain't that dumb. Maybe some Congress-critters are, but I happen to know quite a bit more about automobiles than your average politico, and the scenario she describes is so close to impossible that it's not even worth considering seriously.
This situation is rapidly turning into a witch hunt, and the tort lawyers are positively wetting themselves over the potential for a class action suit. Outrageous and obviously made-up stories like Ms Smith's should be treated as they deserve -- by being laughed out of court.
A WOMAN has choked back tears as she recalled phoning her husband to say goodbye when her Lexus hurtled out of control at 160km/h down a busy freeway.
Recounting her terrifying brush with death before a US congressional panel probing Toyota's recall crisis, Tennessee woman Rhonda Smith said she had expected to die during the incident in October 2006.
Ms Smith was at the wheel of her new Lexus ES 350 and had just merged with traffic when her car suddenly and inexplicably surged from 70 to 160km/h.
Despite Ms Smith frantically slamming on the emergency brake and even putting the car in reverse, the vehicle continued to speed down the freeway.
STOP. Just fucking stop. Her "testimony" should be thrown out on the basis of that last sentence alone.
Toyota has some problems, and they'll fix them. They have to if they want to keep their brand loyalty intact. Some of those problems may -- I say may -- be related to the PCM, (automobile computer).
But if you seriously expect me to believe that the emergency brake -- which is a purely mechanical system independent of the primary brakes and the PCM -- completely failed to operate, and that the car was physically shifted into reverse gear to no effect... well, I ain't that dumb. Maybe some Congress-critters are, but I happen to know quite a bit more about automobiles than your average politico, and the scenario she describes is so close to impossible that it's not even worth considering seriously.
This situation is rapidly turning into a witch hunt, and the tort lawyers are positively wetting themselves over the potential for a class action suit. Outrageous and obviously made-up stories like Ms Smith's should be treated as they deserve -- by being laughed out of court.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 09:29
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It's not a witch hunt. It's a program of Chicago style intimidation of a competitor of GM (Government Motors) and Dodge (owned by the union and government)
Good to see I'm not the only person who is suspicious of our governments attack on Toyota. Our government can no longer be objective since they own a couple of car companies and those companies support democratic controlled unions, which, if my understanding is correct, Toyota is not union.
You are correct; Toyota is not a union shop. They are, however, one of the biggest employers in the United States. The San Antonio truck plant alone (over 2 million square feet of production space) employs many thousands of people. If they have to start laying workers off, that's going make to the unemployment figures look even more like a giant Democrat turd.
Well, I've never claimed Dems could think clearly, let alone plan ahead. They keep bearing me out.
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