tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10249940.post425599162346758482..comments2024-03-26T20:24:43.919-05:00Comments on Papamoka Straight Talk: Toyota Pulls a Detroit of YesteryearPapamokahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14611162290397820224noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10249940.post-27525424692944741402010-02-14T10:07:29.345-06:002010-02-14T10:07:29.345-06:00I have to agree with you 100% Infidel. It just bo...I have to agree with you 100% Infidel. It just bothers me that they keep passing the buck to the engineers as a blanket blame explanation. That isn't the root cause of the failures. If it is in fact the engineers fault then the people in charge are in more trouble than they think. Somebody must have replaced the design tools for the engineering departments with crayons and somebody had to have authorized the purchase of those crayons.Papamokahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14611162290397820224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10249940.post-4764834486434840772010-02-14T07:45:50.013-06:002010-02-14T07:45:50.013-06:00It sounds like Toyota has become over-confident an...It sounds like Toyota has become over-confident and careless. That can happen to those who have been at the top of the heap for too long.<br /><br />The efforts to downplay the problems as a matter of "driver perception" are even more alarming. As with politicians, attemtping a cover-up always does one's reputation more harm than the original problem. And as Detroit also found out in its day, reputation once lost is not easily or quickly regained.<br /><br />Notable too that it was eventually the Japanese <i>government</i> that pushed Toyota to come clean. I guess it's like here -- free enterprise is the backbone of the economy, but the oversight of the state is needed to keep business honest.Infidel753http://infidel753.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com