Shame on Toyota for not addressing this problem properly when it first appeared 10 years ago. They could have saved people’s lives. Now the issue is so big it will takes years to live it down. My hope is that their reputation for quality is sufficiently damaged at this point. No one should fool themselves into thinking Toyota has their safety in mind.
Update: LA Times has a follow-up article to the one from last year, pointing out that the “sticking gas pedal” is a misdirection. There’s no evidence to suggest that fixing the gas pedal will have any significant impact on the problem of sudden acceleration. What’s more, CTS demonstrates that the gas pedal is almost certainly not the issue.
So glad to see more research leading us back to what’s been obvious to other cultures for generations.
So if other people can simply misspell or change their names to avoid the retarded “lists”, why can’t the terrorists? Makes the TSA look ineffective and laughable at best, downright dangerous at worst. Their notion of security is nothing more than covering their asses, no one should ever think this process is working.
I recently left Sun for a new company and already miss the old team (and Microsoft-free environment). The worst thing I’ve encountered so far is a manager who values speed of development over quality, and does not want developers to waste time writing unit tests.
A black screen upon login to Windows, wow. Makes me glad I’m using a Mac. For three years I’ve been exclusively using Macs both at work and at home and I’ve had no problems whatsoever.
All I can say is that it was less painful than their Windows launch party video. Awkward and embarrassing, yes, but not as painful.
A Microsoftie is laid off, gets a job at Google, and discovers that there are better software products out there than what Microsoft develops. Wow, imagine that. It’s like the blinders have been removed. Yet another reason I’ll never work at Microsoft (or Oracle).
It’s impressive the way Palin has built up a reality distortion field around herself. She is so full of shit, on top of being a complete idiot, that I wonder how anyone could have ever taken her seriously.
If you’ve read any of Stonebraker’s other recent posts (in particular from January 2008), you might feel this is another case of mis-categorization. I don’t know where he gets the idea that the NoSQL camp is trying to perform OLTP with their data stores, but that seems to be what he has focused on. Oddly enough, in many cases such data stores are for batch data processing. Curiously, he ignores the benefits offered by these unorthodox data stores (e.g. the high availability and speed of Dynamo, the sheer mass of BigTable) and instead focuses on the features that they don’t provide. He’s careful not to mention any of them by name so that his argument can somehow be applied to all of them. In any case, it’s another biased posting by a self-interested database proponent speaking out against the competition.
After reading this article I’ve made two conclusions. One, I will never buy a Toyota, ever. Two, the NHTSA does not have your safety in mind, which is ironic given their name. Thank God for journalists.
