GM and Toyota are cut from the same cloth! Bob Hilliard
along with Trudy Baltazar and others were instrumental in freeing imprisoned
Koua Fong Lee, Toyota owner whose Camry suddenly accelerated and crashed,
killing several members of one family. Koua Fong Lee served four years of his
eight year sentence after he was wrongfully convicted. He missed the birth of
one of his children. He is so honest that he refused to cut a deal by admitting
fault.
Toyota did NOTHING. Unfortunately, Koua Fong Lee is far
from alone. An embedded software expert. Michael Barr, has found the ECTS-i in
Toyota and Lexus vehicles has poorly designed software and glitches can lead to
an ELECTRONIC sudden unintended acceleration with an ineffective fail-safe.
Translation: a runaway Toyota with ineffective brakes. Problem? Mr. Barr's
300-page report is court-sealed. It was a big part of the Oklahoma Bookout vs.
Toyota SUA case won by the 2005 Toyota Camry owner.
TOYOTA RAV4
Toyota and Lexus vehicles continue to violently
accelerate from parking lots and stopped positions and crash into storefronts,
buildings, and homes where deaths have resulted. Jail time has been served.
Lives have been forever changed. Vehicle owners continue to complain to Toyota
but Toyota says the vehicles are fine...no traceable problem found. BUT...does
Toyota know the truth and is it keeping it secret?
TOYOTA Silencing the TRUTH in TOYOTA'S own Memos....?????
TOYOTA Silencing the TRUTH in TOYOTA'S own Memos....?????
No public corporate response has been given to Toyota
whistleblower and translator, Betsy Benjaminson's publicly-disclosed Toyota
internal documents which show evidence that Toyota knows what's happening.
However, Toyota is currently attempting to stop Betsy's actions
behind-the-scenes via legal motions. Is Toyota more customer-responsive as
promised or more public information-suppressive as
historically-demonstrated?
It seems that Mary Barra may follow in Toyota CEO, James
Lentz's footsteps. Denial is so much easier. Blaming the vehicle owners is more
lucrative and less damaging to the self-lauded public image, after all. What the
public doesn't know can't hurt it...or can it?
As we've seen with both GM and Toyota, the vehicle
owners and their families have to become vocal and organize in order to be heard
by the automaker. Even then, the automakers dance around the issues and choose
words carefully in order to escape full responsibility. What's wrong with this
picture? Why isn't NHTSA protecting the vehicle owners instead of the
automakers?
The system is severely broken and needs repair. It will
take public outrage about the lack of safety standards in vehicles before change
is impacted. Unfortunately, the public is in the dark thanks to the automakers
and the beholden media. Couple this with an in-the-back-pocket government
regulatory agency and you've got a runaway train, right? Add Reputation
Management Companies and on-line suppression of vehicle owner complaints and
dialogue and you've got criminal culpability, don't you?
Until the fix is in effect, vehicle owners are the "test
pilots." Driving these vehicles with unsafe parts and poorly designed software
is like playing Russian roulette, isn't it?
Charlene Blake
