Originally
posted March 7, 2010
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Commentary on
In My Fine Toyota Car
Have you ever experienced hitting a patch of ice, applying the brake as you’ve been taught, and still have your vehicle spin out of control? Or have you felt the shear panic as you watch an object come closer and closer while you stomp on the brake pedal of a vehicle that for some reason will not stop? I have. At that moment you are so powerless, you feel so very impotent as fear grips your heart like a vice. But to be in a car that accelerates on its own without any warning must be the scariest, most frightening thing anyone could possibly experience. Toyota owners experience that acceleration problem every time they drive their car. That acceleration problem is the reason that 2.3 million additional vehicles have been recalled. The total now stands at a massive 8.5 million vehicles involved in the Toyota recalls. But, as 60 owners will attest, the problem still persists even after the “recall fixes” have been completed.
Toyota manufactures good cars and has excellent engineers who develop and design each vehicle’s every detail. And Toyota employs thousands of skilled workers in the United States alone. Their plants produce thousands of vehicles each year and account for a lot of dollars that are reflected in our Gross National Product. But, as with all automobiles, there are always problems and defects large and small. This year Toyota has been plagued by faulty gas pedals and floor mat entrapment problems that made it necessary to recall 6 million plus vehicles involving almost every model in Toyota’s line. And now Toyota’s latest problem, faulty acceleration, involves another 2.3 million car recall. But the acceleration problem with Toyotas is not new. We are just hearing about it.
I own a Toyota and have since 1992. My old Camry runs as good today as it did when I first bought it. It now has about 200,000 miles on it and hasn’t needed any major repairs yet. But since the day I bought my car it has had a “mild” acceleration quirk. I’ll be at a traffic light with my foot on the brake and my car’s engine will suddenly start to race and the car will lurch forward. My problem certainly is not as severe as what the Toyota owners are experiencing today but it is there nonetheless. I was told way back when I first noticed it that it may be caused by the fuel injection system or something. The cause of the problem was never found. Consequently the problem never was fixed.
Those were the days before the lemon laws. Those were the days when the consumer had no recourse. But today things are very different. Toyota has a problem with their line of vehicles that is far more serious than the bothersome quirk in my car. It is life threatening and must quickly and permanently be resolved. That is exactly what the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is responsible for -- investigating and resolving problems like these.
But, instead of focusing on isolating the problem and developing viable solutions NHTSA has joined with the US Congress and together they are pressuring the beleaguered auto manufacturer to produce every piece of data that has ever been collected on the problems. It seems that NHTSA and Congress are interested only in finding fault and pointing fingers instead of uncovering real, workable solutions.
The answer to the problem will be discovered when the government backs off and lets the engineers do their jobs. What is needed is guidance and cooperation not rhetoric and posturing and I sincerely hope that our government realizes that. The United States cannot afford to lose any more jobs or have any more businesses close down. And certainly not one of this size. With good guidance and cooperation the Toyota engineers will be able to fix this problem once and for all.
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In My Fine Toyota Car
Sung to the tune of In My Merry Oldsmobile
Please press play March 7, 2010
Follow me
today Lamar
Sung to the tune of In My Merry Oldsmobile
Please press play March 7, 2010
Follow me
today Lamar
In my fine
Toyota car
To the dealer
I must drive
Hoping I
make it alive
My accelerator’s
stuck
So before
I run amuck
I must go and get
the Toyota fix
Should have bought
that nice Buick
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