http://smithstechnologyblog.com/blog Technology For The Home User Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:04:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://smithstechnologyblog.com/blog/?p=24&cpage=1#comment-12 raymond21 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:04:14 +0000 http://smithstechnologyblog.com/blog/?p=24#comment-12 A couple of observations about this recall. First, yes definitely personal responsibility comes into play. Just yesterday I listened to the 911 call from the Lexus that was doing 120+ with the accelerator stuck, the driver showed no common sense (God rest his soul), he told the operator he couldn't do anything to stop the car and finally crashed killing 4 people. I don't own a lexus but I'm reasonbly sure you can put the car in neutral or turn off the key while in motion. This brings me to my point, if you are going to set a 4000# object in motion shouldn't you be responsible for knowing how to stop it even in abnormal conditions: personal responsibilty. My second observation is this; when this problem finally "came to light" (or Toyota finally admitted to something), it only took about a week to find and produce a "fix" for over 2mil. vehicals. I've never seen a problem make it through r & d and engineering with kind of speed....kinda makes you wonder huh? A couple of observations about this recall. First, yes definitely personal responsibility comes into play. Just yesterday I listened to the 911 call from the Lexus that was doing 120+ with the accelerator stuck, the driver showed no common sense (God rest his soul), he told the operator he couldn’t do anything to stop the car and finally crashed killing 4 people. I don’t own a lexus but I’m reasonbly sure you can put the car in neutral or turn off the key while in motion. This brings me to my point, if you are going to set a 4000# object in motion shouldn’t you be responsible for knowing how to stop it even in abnormal conditions: personal responsibilty.
My second observation is this; when this problem finally “came to light” (or Toyota finally admitted to something), it only took about a week to find and produce a “fix” for over 2mil. vehicals. I’ve never seen a problem make it through r & d and engineering with kind of speed….kinda makes you wonder huh?

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