Submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
Toyota-owned automaker halts Japan production after admitting it tampered with safety tests for 30 years | CNN Business::Daihatsu, the Japanese automaker owned by Toyota, has halted production after admitting it falsified data in safety tests for its vehicles for 30 years.
TIL Daihatsu is still around. They stopped selling cars in my country about 30 years ago.
Daihatsu basically sells rebranded Toyota cars with cheaper price, but with smaller engines, lower trim level, etc. They also sells cheap commercial vehicles such as small pickups.
And with worse safety, it would appear.
Very bad press for Toyota. Hopefully they will take the necessary steps to fix this.
Indeed, even worse consideeing just last week they recalled a ton of vehicles because of faulty airbags, and a month ago issued another recall for 12V batteries catching fire
There's always recalls going on, so it's not indicative of anything when they happen.
I've had 3 newer cars from 3 brands in 3 countries, and all 3 had a recall of some kind. In each case they just bring it in and fix it...
Or rather bad press for Daihatsu, who this is actually about.
commits sudoku
I guess people will cheat and hide it everywhere.
RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Odd that they put “Toyota-owned automaker” in the headline instead of Daihatsu. Or something like, :“Daihatsu, owned by Toyota”.
Whether the problems go “up the chain” to the parent company is TBD, I guess.
Frozengyro@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Apple-owned headphone company, beats, delivers lobotomies to customers.
thoughts3rased@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Well you’d have to have gotten a lobotomy to want to buy beats in the first place.
cowpowered@lemm.ee 10 months ago
There’s a pretty good reasoning for this in the article:
“an independent third-party committee had found evidence of tampering with safety tests on as many as 64 vehicle models, including those sold under the Toyota brand.”
RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And, presumably other brands that come from Daihatsu plants. Assuming the safety issues are only within Daihatsu facilities, that’s the key information. “Daihatsu, a Toyota subsidiary” or similar conveys the useful information. “Toyota-owned automaker” does not.
As it stands, it sounds like CNN is trying to vaugely imply that the problem applies to Toyota generally, which obvs will get a lot of clicks from people who own Toyotas. That’s sloppy clickbait.
IHadTwoCows@lemm.ee 10 months ago
WHY CAN WE NOT GET RESPONSIBLE HEADLINES ANY MORE??!