On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:50:27 -0800, "John R. Carroll"
wrote:
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I wonder if these turkey's EVER think before they speak. I'd be mad as hell
if I were a Toyota shareholder right about now.
My tax payments would have just enabled one of my competitors to mess with
sales figures and the valuation of my equity.

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John R. Carroll
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How are the "sales figures and valuation of my equity" more
important than the live and limb of the taxpayers?

It now appears Toyota's accelerator and brake problems go far
deeper than a too thick floor mat or excessively "value analysed"
gas peddles.

Their entire "fly by wire" vehicle computer control system
appears to have software bugs.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/as...laints/?hpt=T1
Tokyo, Japan (CNN) -- Without issuing a recall of its iconic
Prius hybrid vehicles, Toyota said Thursday a software glitch is
to blame for braking problems in the 2010 model.
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The company changed its braking system software in January as
part of what it called "constant quality improvements," but did
not say what it would do about vehicles manufactured before then.

Toyota officials described the problem as a "disconnect" in the
vehicle's complex anti-lock brake system (ABS) that causes less
than a one-second lag. With the delay, a vehicle going 60 mph
will have traveled nearly another 90 feet before the brakes begin
to take hold.
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Anyone know who developed Toyota's software and what kinds of
validation/checking were performed, and if software quality
control was recently "right sized" or software development was
"out sourced?" Also what other vehicle manufacturers are using
this software/program?


Unka George (George McDuffee)
...............................
The past is a foreign country;
they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author.
The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).