Toyota-owned automaker halts Japan production after admitting it tampered with safety tests for 30 years | CNN Business
Toyota-owned automaker halts Japan production after admitting it tampered with safety tests for 30 years | CNN Business
Daihatsu, the Japanese automaker owned by Toyota, has halted production after admitting it falsified data in safety tests for its vehicles for 30 years.
Toyota-owned automaker halts Japan production after admitting it tampered with safety tests for 30 years | CNN Business::Daihatsu, the Japanese automaker owned by Toyota, has halted production after admitting it falsified data in safety tests for its vehicles for 30 years.
Odd that they put "Toyota-owned automaker" in the headline instead of Daihatsu. Or something like, :"Daihatsu, owned by Toyota".
Whether the problems go "up the chain" to the parent company is TBD, I guess.
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There's a pretty good reasoning for this in the article:
"an independent third-party committee had found evidence of tampering with safety tests on as many as 64 vehicle models, including those sold under the Toyota brand."
And, presumably other brands that come from Daihatsu plants. Assuming the safety issues are only within Daihatsu facilities, that's the key information. "Daihatsu, a Toyota subsidiary" or similar conveys the useful information. "Toyota-owned automaker" does not.
As it stands, it sounds like CNN is trying to vaugely imply that the problem applies to Toyota generally, which obvs will get a lot of clicks from people who own Toyotas. That's sloppy clickbait.
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TIL Daihatsu is still around. They stopped selling cars in my country about 30 years ago.
Very bad press for Toyota. Hopefully they will take the necessary steps to fix this.
Indeed, even worse consideeing just last week they recalled a ton of vehicles because of faulty airbags, and a month ago issued another recall for 12V batteries catching fire
Or rather bad press for Daihatsu, who this is actually about.
The headline is terrible and misleading.
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I don't think it's collusion as much as not wanting to be the bearer of bad news, which snowballs into a cascade of lies.
I guess people will cheat and hide it everywhere.
I was immediately thinking fraud and diesel-gate on steroids. I got the impression they had a scheme going to falsify safety tests for 30 years. What actually happened is they are extremely sloppy and had a series of 174 problems, the oldest of which was 30 years ago.
I think it’s questionable whether the company continues to exist. There is a deep rooted cultural and systemic problem that led to this. In fact, you have to wonder about the industry as a whole when this has gone on for so long. How did no one catch any of the 174 incidents? Is safety testing all for show while the manufacturers operate on the honor system and are primarily motivated by a fear of lawsuits?