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Originally Posted by Nyororin

Are you trying to tell me that the media is only alerting people of the recall and telling them that if they experience an issue like that (with any car, by the way - not just a Toyota) to shift to neutral / cut the engine?

Believe it or not, some people just don't know what to do when I car behaves this way.

Toyota delayed and doesn't have the means of doing this.

Without the Media Toyota would never gets its message out or sweep it under the carpet a bit longer so THEY could of been the ones that announced that the gas pedal etc sticks. ABC News was the one that brought this to the public eye continuously until they had video of some guy pulling his car into a dealer with tires spinning and then put out of gear and the engine running at 100%.

Originally Posted by Nyororin

You must be seeing something different than I, as all the reports *I* have seen are talking about "how to protect yourself in a runaway TOYOTA" - "Would you buy an unsafe Toyota for your children?!" "Toyota cover up and conspiracy!" "Toyota isn`t stopping this fast enough!" "Do you have a Toyota death machine in your driveway?!" etc etc.

Depite what you go to on the Internet, if you watch the evening national or local news you mostly get what Toyota is trying to convey to the public when asked by the news agency. But frankly it WAS NOT fast enough, and Toyota stone walled.

Frankly Toyota should get some of these headlines and simply expect this. ALL OF THEM ARE TRUE!!!

"how to protect yourself in a runaway Toyota" IS very valid ... BECAUSE THESE CARS ARE DANGEROUS.

Originally Posted by Nyororin

Reporting a recall and informing consumers of the danger is one thing, jumping up and down with glee and telling people they`re all going to DIE if they so much as walk in front of a Toyota (another media thing I saw - apparently they`re so likely to just suddenly accelerate that you should make sure not to walk in front of a parked one. )

Well you know what, Toyota ignored first, then ID'd the problem wrong, then reacted slowly when they did know the problem while still selling vehicles. And as you can see from the above article about Steve from Apple computer cruise control malfunction, there may be another problem. I love the part where he could not get through to Toyota to tell them what happened so he had to go to the media.

SO WHAT. Toyota deserves it. They had a chance to find the problem during the floor mat investigation, they blew it off and more people died until ABC enlarged their investigation.

People are dead, families ruined and having them BBQed in the media would be nice to see.
Same for ANY product manufacturer that kills people and how they reacted.

Originally Posted by Nyororin

Yes - But I would go and have the fix done. Which is what media should be encouraging people to do - not scream and treat cars like wild beasts or hunt for conspiracies to "kill Americans" (another gem from US news). Or a long one. It depends.

I think media is doing this. Toyota surely wasn'tt. As you can tell from the recent articles, you can even contact Toyota.

You exagurate with bad taste that there is main stream media out there that are claiming there are conspiracies out there to "kill Americans" in a political nationalized sense. Please direct me to this main stream media source so I can read the comments on it.