ABC News Faked Toyota Tachometer Shot
Submitted by Allen Gwinn on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 06:58.
By DAVID BAUDER, AP News Service
NEW YORK (AP) - For the want of a better two-second picture of a tachometer, ABC News has called into question its reporting on acceleration problems with Toyota vehicles.
The network's handling of a Feb. 22 "World News" story about potential problems with computer systems in Toyotas has created ethical questions and intensified bitter feelings the besieged automaker already had toward ABC.
ABC has admitted to a misjudgment and swapped out the brief dashboard video in its report, which continues to be available online. Its story illustrated a report by David Gilbert, a Southern Illinois University professor who suggested that a design flaw in Toyotas might leave a short-circuit that could cause sudden acceleration undetected by the car's computer system.
Plotting against Toyota
Somebody is pulling a big plot against Toyota... Why? Toyota and Japanese car brands have been producing the most reliable, dependable, inexpensive and quality cars and their sales did not go down despite the slowing aconomy. On the other hand, the domestic cars' sales did go down and they went bankrupt. Why? Because the domestic companies have been producing crappy cars and tricking customers.
Instead of creating hype problems about Toyota, improve your own quality, domestic car brands!.
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