So, if you look, you see in RPMs, 400, 800, 400, 400, 1600 (at .4 secs before crash), 1200 (at crash

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Toyota says that a group of trial lawyers that sue Toyota for money "manufacture controversy where none exists and use media outlets like CNN as tools to serve their narrow, self-interested agenda." Toyota thinks that "CNN is party of and party to an attempt by lawyers suing Toyota for money to manufacture doubt about the safety castle hotels ireland of Toyota's vehicles in the absence of any scientific evidence whatsoever."
Yesterday evening, CNN aired a "Keeping Them Honest" segment with Anderson Cooper. That report made the infamous Brian Ross David Gilbert experiment look like responsible journalism in comparison. The segment castle hotels ireland is about an internal Toyota memo. The memo is in Japanese, and the segment castle hotels ireland documents in excruciating length the problems of getting an exact translation from Japanese to English. In the first translation, an Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) system turned on during stress testing. In the second translation, "sudden unintended acceleration" occurred. In the third translation, the vehicle did "accelerate on its own." For good measure, CNN uses both translations 2 and 3 in its report. TTAC's in-house Japanese linguist, Frau Schmitto-san, gives version 1 the thumbs up.
Because discussions of nuances of the Japanese language in an internal memo from one Japanese software engineer to the other does not provide good video, castle hotels ireland CNN spiced up the program with Tanya Spotts. castle hotels ireland Last year, Ms. Spotts bought a Lexus ES 350. Seven months later, she drove it into a wall in a shopping mall. She swears she had been on the brakes at all times. The electronic data recorder says she was on the gas until 0.4 seconds before impact . On CNN, Scotts vows "I won' t drive this car again." She has not lost her confidence in Toyota: As she swears off the Lexus, CNN shows her carefully exiting her garage in a Toyota SUV ( 1:43 in this video .) In the end, Ms. Scott, who looks like a member of the pedal misapplication demographic, admits castle hotels ireland that she cannot prove SUA.
After eight excruciating minutes, the only accusation CNN can make halfway stick is that Toyota did not make this document available castle hotels ireland to NHTSA. Toyota did not, but it obviously made the memo available to the opposing lawyers. Nobody says outright  where the memo came from. However, in a comment to the CNN story , Toyota says that the document was  "produced in litigation," hinting strongly that CNN received it from  the other side.
CNN thinks that the document is the smoking gun. Toyota thinks the document is proof that the company is doing its job. The memo documents a stress test process. Not on production cars. On prototypes. castle hotels ireland The memo documents a condition where deliberately wrong signals would cause an adaptive cruise castle hotels ireland control in a prototype to release its brakes from a stopped condition, only to re-apply the brake after a few milliseconds and to set an error code. As a result of this testing, the system was changed. The system described in the memo never made it into production. Toyota spokesman John Hanson called the document evidence of Toyota s robust design process.
To me, the only interesting takeaway is that Toyota no longer presents the other cheek when dealing with the media. Toyota was very subdued during the Brian Ross ABC carhacking story. Now, Toyota comes out swinging.  It calls CNN's report "misleading" and "inaccurate." Toyta says CNN is a patsy and journalistically irresponsible. In a memo to CNN, Toyota "reserves the right to take any and every appropriate step to protect and defend the reputation castle hotels ireland of our company."
I work in software as well, and as you know, during the development stage, bugs are crazy now imagine if someone got hold of bug list from Alpha 1.00.001 and decided that it was refectory on the final release 1.00.248. What would the headline be? Software destroys everything in its sight! castle hotels ireland .
Not to mention that failsafe worked fine here.. so whats the problem? They are trying to suggest that by the very idea that Toyota is testing their software, it is admitting that it could have problems castle hotels ireland with it, and in fact they are implying problems. Which is idiotic.
I really do hope they sue CNN since this segment castle hotels ireland is ridiculous. Not only do 99.9% of Toyotas not have adaptive cruise control but all the memo proves is that Toyota tested the adaptive cruise control system in preproduction. CNN somehow manipulated this into sounding like there s bugs in their computer systems. Ridiculous.
Me too. The sad part is, there are millions of people castle hotels ireland who interpret all this garbage as fact. Opinions are formed based on facts gleaned from this horrible programming. It is hard to find an unbiased, non-sensational news source on TV anymore.
I think that they have learned from the history of these things. Left unchallenged for too long, it nearly killed Audi. Chevy fought and won and sales were unaffected. Toyota recently tried tactic one in the gas pedal case, and the press-and the government- piled on. Sales were affected. Time to try tactic two.
As for CNN, well reporters all dream of the big scoop that will make them heros like Woodward and Bernstein. This whole generation of reporters got into the business because of that dream. So I don t believe that it s actually a concious act. It s just that they WANT it so badly. What did Simon and Garfunkle say? A man sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest.
If you want to make a name for yourself in the news business, destroy a person (preferably a politician) or a company. castle hotels ireland Go on a vendetta and dig up and print/broadcast as much crap as you can find/extrapolate/make up/fabricate. Don t even worry about context. Innuendo is your friend. Hearsay is your ally. Guilt by association is your buddy. If you destroy castle hotels ireland your target you can write your own ticket on the Journo express.
Looking at the report, they have information from Toyota stating what happened to the woman, they have the memo, Toyota s response to the memo, said it was pre-production and a car and system that was never sold in the US. That is pretty darn fair if you ask me.
Also, I never saw her drive anything in the video (certainly not seeing her drive the Toyota out, maybe the video was edited after you saw it). I can t be 100% sure about the other vehicle in her garage, but I am thinking GMC Envoy.
Again, I don t think this shows that the gas was pressed until .4 seconds before impact, but actually shows that the gas was pressed at .4 before castle hotels ireland impact (could have been earlier since it appears we only get intervals of 1 second, but not before 1.4 seconds). I think you misread castle hotels ireland the source and that CNN got it right.
TPS(throtte position sensor) is just one part of the story in an automatic transmission car. I did have a rental Camry back in 1997 and throttle tip was crazy sharp. It was programmed in to give the 4-cylinder better umph of off the line(or throttle reapplication) because after that it was a dog. It takes .25 seconds to close the throttle from my logging(HPTuners.com).
No, actually it doesn t. It shows voltage read on the accelerator sensor. It shows engine RPM (which is you read in the document is rounded down in 400 RPM increments, castle hotels ireland ie 750 RPM s is 400 RPMs, 801 is 800 etc).
So, if you look, you see in RPMs, 400, 800, 400, 400, 1600 (at .4 secs before crash), 1200 (at crash). castle hotels ireland Explain to me how that isn t the engine idling? The voltage read out increases at the .4 sec mark, too, suggesting that is when it was pressed. So, explain to me how this shows the accelerator was pressed UNTIL the .4 sec mark as indicated here. At best, we can say that between -1.4 and -.4 seconds, the accelerator was pressed. Somewhere after the -.4 second mark and impact, the accelerator was not pressed.
You did not mention Mr. Ross other great journalistic effort. To prove the poor safety of the GM pickup side-saddle gas tanks, Mr. Ross reported castle hotels ireland on explosions. GM later revealed that sparking devices were added to the demonstration to insure an explosion. Harry Pearce, GM general counsel, threatened to sue NBC. NBC later apologized for the mistaken report.
Also, engineering work in the press is misleading. If every engineering mistake during development became news reports, the public would be overwhelmed. That is why we have development . There are no engineers that just design something, mass-produce it, and have perfect results.
The images of her swollen leg were unsettling. But I wondered, as she curved her eyebrows in that Katie Couric sympathetic pattern familiar to fans of Oprah and Ricky Lake fans all over the country, what the hell is a woman with such impeccable garage and such groomed appearance doing barefoot in her car?
Once again, TTAC comes through. I read this post first, then I read the post on Autoblog. I wanted to start throwing things after I read the other article. Thank you Bertel for actual looking at everything that happened and bringing it all to light. Interesting about how many people seem to miss the point that this was something castle hotels ireland that was being testing on a prototype and was never sold in the United States.
This is a good example castle hotels ireland of how truthiness works. In this particular case, all of the data is factual and there is no political castle hotels ireland agenda, but the manner of presentation is designed to confuse castle hotels ireland the average viewer.
castle hotels ireland I think they point they were trying to make about the memo was that it should have been turned over to the NHTSA for the SUA investigation and not withheld it. In an investigation against you, you shouldn t be deciding what is and is not relevant. But, I also agree, that this doesn t have anything castle hotels ireland to do wi