Re: Randy Berger My Answer to You About Nance

Posted by HH56 On 2010/2/5 21:49:59

I just watched a piece on the news about some of the brake issues. Who will benefit on the whole fiasco is open for debate, IMHO.

It was alleged brake issues were known about and investigations were opened by the NTSB some time ago. Since there was apparently no staff versed in modern software & the technology involved expertise, they relied on Toyota to investigate. When Toyota reported there was no problem, the cases were closed. Now all of a sudden Toyota has admitted they knew about the problem, had developed a fix & repaired it on some vehicles and will begin fixing older ones "on a case by case basis for now". Ford also apparently has the same issue on their hybrids so must be buying their parts from same place. Since we have almost no domestic hybrid development thanks to the politicians believing that was not a proper place to use government funds and killing off all funding for programs a few years ago, guess that was to be expected.

There are also a few reports now of cruise controls gaining speed by themselves. The accelerator fix is still not totally being believed that it is mechanical rather than software so guess time will also tell on that. Other manufactures have had both minor and major issues they denied until forced to admit and fix them.

My point is that it is obvious that car manufacturers are not going to police themselves so who should be watching if government should not be involved? I guess there is always caveat emptor but I think I would prefer something a little stronger.