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NEW YORK – 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.
Phony 2-second Video Raises Ethics Questions In ABC News In Story About Toyota Acceleration Problems
Seeded on Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:32 PM EST
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And the saga continues.......I have a thought. Now, there are weird episodes happening with PCs, I don't know about the notebooks, I have a PC. There was mention on world news about what is happening as a result of the earthquakes, which by the way Chile had a stronger one today over 7.0. They said that Chile's shoreline has moved 10 feet west. The Haiti quake threw the plant off axis, resulting in something of a mili-second slower. I wonder about the satelites. They are still in same position as before all this started happening, without compensation nor adjustment. Any thoughts????
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#2 - Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:13 PM ESTUnfortunately, Koua Lee, a man who was convicted here in MN after his Toyota killed 3 people in a rear-end car crash, will quite possibly be reopened because he always claimed that, exiting the ramp, he began accelerating rapidly and attempted to stop the car but couldn't. Given these issues with Toyota, his case is being reviewed, and many a juror in that case says that, if the evidence available today had been available then, they might've not convicted the man of criminal vehicular homicide. Families of the victims have also come forward to ask that his case be reviewed.
So, you could say there's now a Toyota defense. BTW, his vehicle was a 1996 Toyota Camry.
For more on the story from Kare11.com, click here.
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Interesting question about the satellites but I would think it is more a matter of adjusting the aim of the ground stations for the communications satellites. For the GPS it would be a software adjustment I would imagine. I assume GPS satellites have a mechanism for adjusting geosynchronous orbits. Think, assume, imagine, in other words I just don't know. Anyone out there with better intel?
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#3 - Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:36 PM ESTGee, you mean that maybe, just maybe one of those scientist could just do a little tweeking, and would fix the magnetic pull of the earth?? That sure would be a simple answer, if that really is the problem, but who knows out there??? Doesn't seem like there is anything much in US news about the Mertz Glacier collision. Is this the beginning of Mother Nature fighting back?
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