Posted on 02/24/2010 12:38:07 PM PST by Kieri
(WXYZ) - The FBI is confirming raids at the offices of three Michigan auto suppliers who do work for Toyota.
Search warrants were served Tuesday evening at Yazaki North America, DENSO International and Tokai Rika. Yazaki sells electronic components and DENSO makes accelerator pedals.
Denso has released the following statement about the situation "DENSO International America, Inc. (DIAM), U.S. subsidiary of DENSO Corporation, was inspected on February 23, 2010 by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Justice in regard to U.S. antitrust laws. DIAM is cooperating with this investigation."
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Software may be the problem, along with user ignorance of how to handle the keyless ignition system. However, I had actually read (before the Toyota thing started) that manufacturers in general had glitches with their software, or problems that were thought to be software related, which had resulted in accidents. It was considered to be a growing problem and difficult to solve or identify, and this included American companies as well.
This latest raid, however, isn’t related to that but is supposedly part of an anti-trust action. The only thing I think we can all bet on is that, under any name, it’s really an attack on one of the main competitors of Government Motors.
“BREAKING: FBI Raids Toyota Suppliers”
The United States government owns General Motors.
Make your own conclusions.
Unbelievable. Nevermind whether the new owners had problems or not. The very fact she would sell something she believed to be A TICKING TIME BOMB is unconscionable. It’s either that, or she didn’t believe a word she was saying to that committee.
Brits mark vehicle maintenance periods by the days after friday and before monday. It’s what weekends and wives are for in Britain. Weekends to “fix the car” and wives to “Push the car”.
Pure crap. The thug in the WH doing his thing. Ford better start watching it’s back. Obama will be out for them soon enough.
Government Motors?
“they couldn’t accelerate too fast”
My buddy had one with a turbocharger. It was pretty quick. A blast to drive! Like a big go kart!
I still drive the ‘91 LS-400 I inherited from my Dad. Wonderful car. Luxurious, fast, (I chickened out at about 135), handles great. Bought a used Highlander in ‘o2. Great car. Only have had to replace all three oxy sensors, 1 brake job.
Same thing is going on with the Global Warming Hoax...cept the UN is pushing it also.
oh sh*t ..... wait
Interesting. I was thinking of the problem from a mechanical perspective more — not at the computer end.
This part caught my eye: “The Antitrust Division is investigating the possibility of anti-competitive cartel conduct of automotive electronic components suppliers. We are coordinating with the European Commission and other foreign competition authorities.”
Now what the hell.
I do not like how Europe throws its weight around. It has done this before:
o If you’re an American airline, and you want landing rights at deGaulle, well you damn well better have a bunch of Airbus planes in your fleet.
o If you’re an American manufacturer of airplane hardware (GE) and want to merge with another American manufacturer of airplane hardware (Honeywell), better bend over and grab your ankles, because here comes the EU telling you you can’t do it.
o If you’re an American software company selling the world’s most common operating system (Microsoft), better assume the same position because here’s the EU forcing you to provide a choice of browsers at installation time, even though there’s nothing keeping your customers from installing any of them after setup is complete.
And now Google is in the crosshairs. Europe is nowhere in personal computing, but that doesn’t keep their bucktoothed bureaucrats the self-anointed right to get in the way.
Europe’s approach to “anti-trust” is high-handed, elitist, in love with its own intellect. There is a very typische European vibe to it all: If you think about it, the great wars of the 20th century were basically to rescue Europe from its own bad ideas. Twice. Here’s another: instead of competing and innovating, harrass and block.
A dear friend is an attorney in Frankfurt who is hip-deep in the EU’s mulishness and pestering of American enterprises over there. During the GE/Honeywell mess (http://money.cnn.com/2001/07/03/europe/ge_eu/), I got him into a spirited argument about why the hell the EU had any jurisdiction over the private contracting of two companies on another continent. We went around and around, and finally it became clear that the EU thinks it can do that because ...well, it can. They have weight to throw around, so they do, and who cares about picayune matters like jurisdiction. Might makes right. The U.S. political timing was good for the ambitions of Brussels, with the outgoing globalist Clinton Administration undoubtedly pleased to see the events unfolding as they were and the incoming GWBush Administration with insufficient political capital to push back, assuming it had any mind to (always a question with both Bushes). So now we’re stuck with the Brussels bureaucrats waggling their schoolmarmish finger forevermore at our companies for the crime of doing business over there.
Now this. Overt and stated collaboration between the White House and Brussels to harass, intimidate and damage non-union enterprises in the U.S.
"We're not finished with Toyota," Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in an e-mailed statement to Reuters...
Toyota will still be better.
Yesterday I watched a vid that showed the computer on a Camry could not detect a short in the fuel or throttle assembly. That was pretty scary. No faults recorded...at all. Yet the car accelerated rapidly. He didn’t even have his foot on the pedal. Brrr.
As far as anti trust, I think this passage, the last line especially, from a Supreme Court decision involving the Sherman Act gives us a hint of where 0bama is going with this...
“The purpose of the Sherman Act is not just to protect businesses from the working of the market; it is also to protect the public from the failure of the market. The law directs itself not against conduct which is competitive, even severely so, but against conduct which unfairly tends to destroy competition itself.”
I’m definitely leaning your way on this. They are merely exposing the weak spots of their rivals in true form. I am hopeful the Toyota corporate owners are not too honorable for their own good here — Congress (and by extension the entire Dem administration in power) most certainly isn’t an honorable ‘institution’. It’s a different kind of “war”, but it’s being fought in front of our eyes. It’s akin to the Economic War China promised to bring us into 2 years ago (to ruin us...).
Yep, it's becoming obvious
Unreal!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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