Saturday, February 27, 2010

Enigineering professor puts Toyota recall into perspective

Paul S. Fischbeck is a professor in the departments of Engineering and Public Policy and Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie-Mellon University. He puts the Toyota recall into perspective as he is interviewed by CNBC.



Eye-opening stuff.

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  1. caminito4:49 PM

    This is a plainly poor approach to the security issue:

    Practically, during the last 30 years
    nearly no security recall would have been necessary if the society considers that a chance to die is lower than 1 per 100,000 a year.

    If we accept that, manufacturers will
    cease to try to make safe products and suddenly we will be surprised to learn that some chances will increase to 1 per 1,000.

    Such argument appears constantly in the blogs posted by TOYOTA's supporters. So, we would continue to let or children play with Chinese lead poisoned toys and if a few die, parents will be told "do not worry, other 100,000 (for now) are still alive" !

    Mr. Fischbachs answers "society must judge" are not sincere, he seems to advocate, not intentionally I hope, TOYOTA's cause

    TOM WITTMANN
    caminito@netzero.com

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