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Unintended Acceleration Risk Lower Than Everyday Driving Risk
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David C. Holzman
(IC: employee)
Published: March 14th, 2010
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Your risk of dying from your Toyota’s unintended acceleration (UA) is so low as to be all but nil next to the more general risk of dying in an automobile, according to an “Opinionator” column in the New York Times, by journalist Robert Wright.
David C. Holzman
I'm a freelance journalist covering science, medicine, and automobiles.
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Published March 14th, 2010 12:28 PM
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Further proof that the media has taken a non-issue (unintended acceleration), singled out a manufacturer (Toyota) and has done considerable damage to them...for no reason.
I totally agree, the NYT is just a left wing radical rag. I get all my facts and all my opinions and all my talking points from Fox News.
The Toyota mess is not about the risk their cars provide to an individual. The story is about how Toyota handled news about the defects. They did everything in their power to bury the news and avoid expense and loss of reputation. It may be appropriate for the NYT to suggest there is little risk with your Toyota, but it is not appropriate to suggest that the Toyota company is not a risk to America. Just like Global Warming and Climategate, the NYT wouldn't recognize the real issue of the Toyota story unless they were paid to. God bless Fox News, Glenn Beck, the Tea Party, and the 912 Project. There is hope that we will all survive the NYT, the MSM, unfair competition, and Obama.
I bet that didn't hold up posts in the Farago era. Hmm, I posted this AFTER I saw psar's comment.