I know, it's another post about Toyota but this whole unintended acceleration incident is just too good to be true when writing opinion columns. It's chalked full of great information in which to make fun of the general car buying public with. Granted this needs to all be taken with a grain of salt as I'm mostly being tongue-in-cheek about the whole thing.
Our friends at Jalopnik have complied this handy dandy chart to exemplify one thing, see if you can spot the pattern.
This is just more fuel to add to the fire of speculation and conspiracy surrounding the whole Toyota debacle. Are the cars to blame or are pensioners? Is it just that younger people know how to handle issues that come up on the road better then older people? There is too much insufficient data to draw any hard conclusions like that but this is one piece of the giant puzzle that the NHTSA and Toyota need to address. I said it in a previous column that no company wants to blame their customers for something, that's horrible marketing and a good way to lose favour. This is seriously looking like something that needs to be considered at least, especially when you have 60 year old swingers who enjoy Bill Cosby sweaters faking a run away green machine. The quicker an answer is formed, the quicker people looking to make a fast buck will have to look elsewhere.
It seriously seems that everyone is ignoring the elephant in the room and all it's going to do is hang there like a giant albatross...two metaphors! Zing!
Hopefully someone that matters, not a small time blogger like myself, suggests this as a real possibility and we start looking at the data. Although I'm not sure how positive that would be for Toyota's image either. Sure their accelerator pedals don't stick and their cars won't be death traps, but then we'd all get the impression only idiots buy Toyota's. Whatever comes of this situation it appears Toyota's global presence is probably going to be fairly tarnished and the mighty will fall.
I'll say this here and now, I still think Toyota makes a good product. Every Toyota I've ever driven has drove well and I never ended up in some unexpected ride fearing for my life...but then again, those Toyota's are severely ageist and clearly hate old people and I'm just some 22 year old punk kid with too much time on his hands.
Our friends at Jalopnik have complied this handy dandy chart to exemplify one thing, see if you can spot the pattern.
This is just more fuel to add to the fire of speculation and conspiracy surrounding the whole Toyota debacle. Are the cars to blame or are pensioners? Is it just that younger people know how to handle issues that come up on the road better then older people? There is too much insufficient data to draw any hard conclusions like that but this is one piece of the giant puzzle that the NHTSA and Toyota need to address. I said it in a previous column that no company wants to blame their customers for something, that's horrible marketing and a good way to lose favour. This is seriously looking like something that needs to be considered at least, especially when you have 60 year old swingers who enjoy Bill Cosby sweaters faking a run away green machine. The quicker an answer is formed, the quicker people looking to make a fast buck will have to look elsewhere.
It seriously seems that everyone is ignoring the elephant in the room and all it's going to do is hang there like a giant albatross...two metaphors! Zing!
Hopefully someone that matters, not a small time blogger like myself, suggests this as a real possibility and we start looking at the data. Although I'm not sure how positive that would be for Toyota's image either. Sure their accelerator pedals don't stick and their cars won't be death traps, but then we'd all get the impression only idiots buy Toyota's. Whatever comes of this situation it appears Toyota's global presence is probably going to be fairly tarnished and the mighty will fall.
I'll say this here and now, I still think Toyota makes a good product. Every Toyota I've ever driven has drove well and I never ended up in some unexpected ride fearing for my life...but then again, those Toyota's are severely ageist and clearly hate old people and I'm just some 22 year old punk kid with too much time on his hands.
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