Spike in Prius complaints may not be all it seems

yahoo ^ | Wednesday March 10, 2010, 8:10 pm EST | Erin Mcclam and Tom Krisher

[annieokie]

Thinking about this today, there is no way an average person could control that car for 20 minutes at that speed on that road, without being a professional driver. Not only that but he managed to make a call and talk. I say NO WAY, he was a pro driver. JMO

[TankerKC]

"When people expect problems, they're more likely to find them,"

Racism works the same way.

...Lars Perner, a professor of clinical marketing...Professor of what???

[WalterSobchak2012]

When I worked for an electronics company we shipped approximately 1200 devices with a a cable installed incorrectly. The plastic insulation could melt because of its proximity to a component that got very hot, causing a short and a fire.

We knew exactly which dealers had the defective product, most of them having been shipped to dealers in the Southeast, Puerto Rico and Mexico with most having been delivered to a single retailer and still in their distribution channel.

When it hit the media all of the sudden our product was catching fire all over North America. Other unaffected product lines also began catching fire.

Assholes were holding the device over their stove to deliberately melt the cable. We paid thousands of dollars to obvious con-artists in our of court settlements.

[OafOfOffice]

Listen to the 911 tape also if you can bear it.

http://jalopnik.com/5491101/did-bankrupt-runaway-prius-driver-fake-unintended-acceleration

Did Bankrupt Runaway Prius Driver Fake “Unintended Acceleration?”

James Sikes, the San Diego runaway Toyota Prius driver, filed for bankruptcy in 2008 and now has over $700,000 in debt. According to one anonymous tipster, we’re also told he hasn’t been making payments on his Prius. [Jalopnik]