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The Motley Fool
July 14, 2010
John Rosevear |
Toyota Blames the Victims Did they really just blame their customers for all those accidents?   |
Popular Mechanics
February 9, 2010
James B. Meigs |
Target Toyota: Why the Recall Backlash Is Overblown In the midst of three major recalls, Toyota has been hammered by daily newspaper and TV pieces suggesting it has been slow to address safety problems. |
BusinessWeek
February 18, 2010
Green & Fisk |
Did Toyota Sway Traffic Safety Regulators? The Japanese automaker fended off four U.S. auto defect probes dating back to 2004 with the help of two ex-regulators on its payroll. |
Popular Mechanics
January 22, 2010
David Kiley |
Toyota Tackles Sudden Acceleration With New Recall The Japanese automaker announced a recall of 2.3 million Toyota vehicles on Jan. 21, admitting to a problem with accelerator pedals it sourced dating back to 2005 from Indiana-based supplier CTS Automotive Products. |
BusinessWeek
February 18, 2010 |
U.S. Regulators Hired by Toyota Have Helped Deflect Past U.S. Car Safety Probes Court and government documents show that Christopher Tinto, Toyota's vice-president for regulatory affairs, and Christopher Santucci, who works for him, affected NHTSA investigations into alleged acceleration problems involving Toyota cars and pickups. Here's an overview. |
BusinessWeek
December 9, 2010
Siddharth Philip |
Driving in India: Cars, Corruption, Collisions In India, the roads are dangerous, the lawlessness is rampant, and the highways are getting more crowded by the minute. |
Popular Mechanics
November 4, 2009
Larry Webster |
Recall Safety: How to Fix a Stuck Electronic Throttle If your car unintentionally accelerates, there are several effective countermeasures. |
The Motley Fool
February 24, 2010
Stephen Mauzy |
For Toyota, This, Too, Shall Pass Toyota's imbroglio will be minor in the grand scheme of things. |
Popular Mechanics
March 3, 2010
Mike Allen |
Anatomy of Toyota's Problem Pedal: Mechanic's Diary Toyota deserves a better deal than the media and Congress are giving it. |
The Motley Fool
February 3, 2010
John Rosevear |
Toyota: The New Japanese Word for "Toast"? The company that could do no wrong is suddenly in big trouble. |
Popular Mechanics
March 1, 2010
David Kiley |
What's Next for Toyota: Your Top Recall Questions, Answered Questions still linger, notably, what will be the ultimate consequence of Toyota's nightmare episode. |
BusinessWeek
February 3, 2010
David Welch |
Toyota's Recalls: A Tough Road Back Why Toyota may take years to win back the confidence of car buyers, assuming the flurry of recalls is over. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2006
Ben Stewart |
Is Your Car Smarter Than You Are? The computing power of the family car has grown exponentially. The question is: Do we like it? |
BusinessWeek
November 14, 2005
Ian Rowley |
Cars That Brake When You Don't Japan leads the way in high-tech gadgets that help prevent auto accidents. |
InternetNews
February 1, 2010 |
Study: Cell Phone Laws Don't Curb Crashes Insurance-backed study argues laws don't eliminate distractions; Department of Transportation begs to differ. |
The Motley Fool
December 26, 2010
Anil Das |
Does a Driverless Car Mean Road Safety? Google's automated car brings up lots of questions about new legalities. |
National Defense
August 2011
Stew Magnuson |
Army, Car Makers Push Ahead With Driverless Vehicle Research When it comes to concepts for vehicles that can drive themselves on highways or city streets, the military and automakers have been working on similar paths for several years. |
PC Magazine
January 1, 2008
Chloe Albanesius |
Sending the Wrong Message Texting while driving is causing accidents on the roads of America. |
The Motley Fool
January 4, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
Is Toyota MADD? The automaker's plan to install drunk-driver detectors could backfire. Clearly, Toyota's being a good corporate citizen. But the initiative may not do much, if anything, to solve the problem of drunk driving -- and it could hurt Toyota shareholders in the process. |
The Motley Fool
June 9, 2004
Seth Jayson |
SUVs Keep Rolling Government safety tests confirm what consumer watchdogs have long alleged. SUVs have a tough time keeping four on the floor. |
Fast Company
John Paul Titlow |
Self-Driving Cars Will Be The Biggest Auto Safety Innovation Ever Like so many things in life, the future of driving is automated. In fact, autonomous vehicles could reduce traffic accidents by 90%, according to a new report from McKinsey. |
Popular Mechanics
January 27, 2010
Larry Webster |
Toyota Halts Production to Tackle Sticky Gas Pedals Toyota added to an already swollen recent recall list with another monstrous 2.3-million vehicle callback. Now the company will stop producing affected vehicles as it searches for a remedy. |
The Motley Fool
August 13, 2010
John Rosevear |
Autos Weekly: Is Toyota Off the Hook? New findings hint that the acceleration "defect" might be driver error, but questions remain. |
The Motley Fool
June 1, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Prius Steers Toyota Wrong? Investors, the auto maker issues a voluntary recall of nearly a million Prius hybrids. Naturally, investors took to that news like a pig to a bubble bath, sending the stock lower by a little more than 2% as of Tuesday's close. But the shares have since rallied. |
The Motley Fool
February 4, 2010
John Rosevear |
Like Its Cars, Toyota's Woes Aren't Stopping The problems with the Prius's brakes are just the tip of a nasty iceberg. |
Wired
April 2002
Andrew Tilin |
You Are About To Crash After decades spent designing smarter airbags, antilock brakes, and collision-avoidance systems, Detroit has set its sights behind the wheel. Now the cutting edge of car safety is the driver. Brace yourself... |
The Motley Fool
February 17, 2010
John Rosevear |
Toyota: It's Getting Even Worse There's no end in sight to the automaker's troubles. |
Salon.com
December 7, 2000
Dawn MacKeen |
First you dial, then you crash With cellphone use among drivers skyrocketing, can accidents be far behind? |
The Motley Fool
June 1, 2005
Rich Smith |
Detroit Catches a Break Toyota might have fumbled the ball with a glitch in the software that runs the Prius. |
The Motley Fool
October 22, 2010
John Rosevear |
Huge Toyota Recall? No Big Deal. As recalls go, this most recent one of Toyota's is a mixed bag. |
AskMen.com
Patrick Rowlings |
How To Avoid Car Accidents Here are some dos and don'ts that can help minimize your chances of becoming a statistic. |
Science News
April 15, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Men, Women, Cars, and Crashes While a new study that shows male traffic fatalities outnumber female fatalities through all age brackets may suggest innate behavioral differences between the sexes, another plausible interpretation leans more toward social differences. |
Reason
November 2007
David Harsanyi |
Prohibition Returns! Tee-totaling do-gooders attack your right to drink in America. |
The Motley Fool
November 1, 2004
Phil Wohl |
Toyota Accelerating Past GM? The Japanese auto company is posturing to become the world's largest car manufacturer. |
BusinessWeek
March 11, 2010
Alan Ohnsman et al. |
The Humbling of Toyota A combination of high-speed global growth and ambitious cost cuts led to the quality lapses that have tarnished the once-mighty brand. How it all went wrong. |
BusinessWeek
January 16, 2006
Lee Walczak et al. |
Dream Machines There's a new 'golden age' of automotive design and technology dawning as sales-hungry automakers are innovating at full speed -- and giving buyers the power to shape their vehicles. |
BusinessWeek
October 6, 2003
David Welch |
Reinventing the Hybrid Wheel Will Toyota and others convince buyers that the latest models are more than weird science? |
Science News
February 26, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Super Bowl Crashes Is there a link between Super Bowl telecasts and fatal car crashes? Do fatal crashes increase immediately following a telecast? |
The Motley Fool
February 5, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
Don't Die at Work How dangerous is your field of work? Some statistics on fatal occupational injuries in 2002. |
The Motley Fool
December 5, 2010 |
Ford to Install Rearview Cameras by End of 2011 The automaker works toward compliance with a federal mandate. |
The Motley Fool
April 30, 2010
John Rosevear |
This Week in Autos It was a week in which Ford reported another great quarter, General Motors continued to get skewered for its claim to have "paid back" the U.S. taxpayers, and Toyota found yet another variation on the recall tune. |
The Motley Fool
July 21, 2006
Anders Bylund |
Toyota: Driving the Future If you're looking for innovation, you might need look no further than your garage. It's the way that company CEO Katsuaki Watanabe thinks about the future that really makes Toyota exciting. |
PC Magazine
July 28, 2009
Dan Costa |
Texting--And 8 Other Things NOT to Do While Driving Texting while driving kills, but that isn't the only technological threat drivers have to face. |
BusinessWeek
February 11, 2010
David Welch et al. |
How Detroit Can Gain from Toyota's Recalls GM and Ford have an opportunity to steal buyers from a bloodied Toyota. The trick is not to seem predatory. |
Wired
April 2005
Brendan I. Koerner |
Rise of the Green Machine In a nation of gas-guzzlers, Toyota made hybrids cool. Now the world's number-two automaker wants to make the internal combustion engine obsolete. |
BusinessWeek
July 11, 2005
Ian Rowley |
Lexus To The Rescue Losing luster in the luxury market at home, Toyota is rolling out the marque to fight European imports. |
The Motley Fool
October 21, 2010
Rich Smith |
Picture of the Day: Toyota -- Moving Backward Citing a range of problems newly discovered -- problems with fuel pumps, problems with the brake fluid -- Toyota this morning announced it must recall 740,000 Lexus, Avalon, and Highlander models in the U.S. |
The Motley Fool
February 4, 2010
John Rosevear |
Ford Flies, General Motors Climbs, Toyota Dives January auto sales continued to defy conventional wisdom -- and consistency. |
The Motley Fool
May 12, 2004
Mike Cianciolo |
Toyota Smokes the Competition The leader of the Japanese auto market sets a list of records. |
CRM
November 2011
Brittany Farb |
Don't Let a Crisis Destroy Your Image The right damage control recipe can restore confidence in your brand. |
