Bogus Lawsuit CostsToyota 1 Billion $

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by Billiam

Actually...Toyota would've pulled info on brake and throttle application from "The Box"...as they started doing soon after this whole debacle began. You made the right choice....being honest.

How I feel about 'The Box' has changed over the years. I read my owners manual carefully when I first purchased my new Yaris and I didn't like the description of 'The Box'. Too Orwellian...I was p****d off. I have since made peace with it. I still think in is too Orwellian, but I now look upon it as partial proof of my safe driving.

[Billiam]

Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

How I feel about 'The Box' has changed over the years. I read my owners manual carefully when I first purchased my new Yaris and I didn't like the description of 'The Box'. Too Orwellian...I was p****d off. I have since made peace with it. I still think in is too Orwellian, but I now look upon it as partial proof of my safe driving.

Toyota (like many other companies) has been forced to find ways to protect it's self from bogus claims. So many of these SUA claims were debunked after "The Box" was analyzed.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by Billiam

Toyota (like many other companies) has been forced to find ways to protect it's self from bogus claims. So many of these SUA claims were debunked after "The Box" was analyzed.

I know, you're right. I'm just too idealistic. The fact that we live in a society where cameras are needed to help deter people from stealing and doing other things wrong is, IMO, pathetic. I spent a fair amount of time in Scandinavia earlier in my life (especially in Sweden) and I remember it being more like the way I wish things would be here, now (the nature of goodness part....not the so called cradle to grave part. I don't think the two are, by necessity, related) . I haven't been there since just before 9/11. I've read that much has changed (irrespective of 9/11). Being, in a few ways, a 'disappointed idealist' forced to be a realist probably stokes the cynical view I have toward some things.