Monday, March 15, 2010

More on Toyota

Looks like there is more to the story on Toyota. A few days ago I learned that Toyota has "black boxes" in its cars, recording devices that note the state of systems just before and after air bag deployments.

These recordings can only be read with software created for (by?) Toyota, and only one computer in all the United States has this reading software. Seems like the company is not interested in making these crash data widely accessible.

If there is any willful withholding of information essential to public safety, then Toyota is clearly begging for investigation.

Unfortunately, the congress seems particularly ill-suited for leading a pursuit of the truth.

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