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Toyota recalls more than 400,000 hybrid cars
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Tokyo, Japan (CNN) - Toyota's president apologized profusely Tuesday as he announced the global recall of more than 400,000 of the automaker's 2010 hybrid models, including the popular Prius, for problems in their anti-lock braking systems.
"We do apologize for the inconvenience and concerns we've given to the customers," President Akio Toyoda said in making the recall announcement from the automaker's headquarters in Tokyo. "Quality is our lifeline for Toyota."
The company will work to recover its customers' trust, Toyoda said.
The automaker filed recall papers early Tuesday afternoon with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. Recall papers will be filed in the United States sometime Tuesday.
The recall adds to the woes of the beleaguered automaker, which had previously recalled more than 8 million cars in recent months. This latest recall was the first of Toyota vehicles sold in the domestic Japanese market.
The worldwide recall involves 437,000 vehicles, including the Toyota Prius and Sai, along with the Lexus HS250h. The Sai is sold primarily in Japan.
Sales of the Sai and Lexus HS250h will be halted until a fix is in place. Read the full story »
Check the list of vehicles being recalled | What to do if your car's on the list
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Peoples became to complacent taking the recalls as the norm rather that the odd occurance. Now that the flaw involves a critial part of the car that can lead to serious accidents and death. If the problems with recalls and defected parts were dealt with properly years ago these accidents and deaths could have been prevented. The manufacures are getting what they deserve for their failure to secure the general public.
Quality like equality mere words not yet acted upon nor delivered.
Redundancy, redundancy, redundancy. That's how it is with military aircraft. Every hydraulic or electronic control is backed up by manual control capability. If car makers are going to literally make our, the consumers', lives and safety dependent on computer controls and software, then they should incorporate manual overrides to enable us to regain control of the vehicle before someone dies as a consequence of, oh, say a software glitch causing brake failure for example.
Let us cut threw the bull and call a rock a rock. For many years car companies sub contracted their parts and the quality protection fell short leading to the recalls. Now the flaw in quality control leads to serious problems and deaths. This should have been picked up in the early stages of the recalls which should have ensured the quality control which was left unchecked leading to the making of defective parts leading to serious problems and even death. All fault lies on car makers and their sub contractors.
I feel sorry for Toyota. Their enemies are exploiting this (as they should) and probably blowing this out of proportion. Every person who has ever hit a wall, tree or garage has said that the car accelerated on it's own. Even the drunk ones. We had a another car maker with a car with only 500 miles on it where the woman jumped out of the car and claimed the car accelerated on it's own and caused her to lose control. We had to investigate. Nothing. She'd killed someone while on her handheld cell phone in a strange city where she'd been weaving in and out of traffic.
Since there have been PCs, there has been the comparison of software and computer reliability to that of an automobile, with the argument being that if cars were no more reliable than computers, we wouldn't tolerate it, because we would be stranded as much as we would be driving, and when and where the breakdown occurred would be a mystery.
Well, it seems that now, at least among Toyota owners, those sarcastic remarks have become reality.
So, does this mean that, from now on when we're in the market for a new car, we're going to have to ask if it's powered by Windows, Mac, Unix, or Linux?
Good morning T.J. and all at CNN this fine Monday morning. Think of it like this...the American auto industry was the pulling the knife out of the sheath. The Japanese industry showed their ability to use that knife for their failure.
Government, Industry, Finance, Academic, Military, Media, Religion(spirituality+ethics you asswipes)and the Peoples. Sure..use the first seven tools against the Peoples of Haiti as was done in the past. See your current path of destruction.
With that understanding above reader one knows exactly where and how to attack those tools. Pentagon...WTC...planes of Industry as weapons...the plane that crashed in the field was not intended to hit Washington....look at the eighth..the Peoples....did not miss reader..did not miss...
Birth of Humanity...like a birth two thirds of the weight coming out is the child with the other third called the placenta.= "a third of the trees, a third of the animals and a third of the peoples shall perish"= we usually cut off and discard the placenta do we not. Each like a gene to the forming genome of humanity itself.
Now I am going to really real freak you out here reader with the following.
1Cor.6:19= "do you not know that you body is a vessel of the Holy Spirit given to you by GOD and that you are not your own"=Potters Clay..how are your dreams of late reader...your thoughts....
Media=meditate(think it over)+mediate(talk it over)+medicate(develop and deliver truths as truth shouldbe delivered to ensure the proper path ofmankind as a whole united body.)===== my friends call me Brian. After writing in for the past 12 years to CNN your grade is just above a pass...barely.