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...make modifications lasting. Teams of officials are headed to the nation's largest lenders for a closer look at what's going on, and starting in December public progress reports will include the number of loans being converted to permanent status - an attempt to shame the firms into quicker action. Monetary penalties could follow...
Other critics contend that Toyota may be imposing a fix without fully understanding the problem. "For years, Toyota Motor Corporation has dismissed complaints of sudden acceleration as being the driver's fault," says David Wright, a Redlands, Calif., attorney, who recently filed a class-action lawsuit against Toyota. "But neither driver error nor floor mats can explain away many other frightening instances of runaway Toyotas. Until the company acknowledges the real problem and fixes it, we worry that other preventable injuries and deaths will occur," Wright says. He contends that errant electrical signals may be triggering some of the sudden...
Toyota spokesman Mike Michels declined to comment on a class-action lawsuit filed by Wright. However, Toyota has said in a separate statement posted on its website that it has studied accidents extensively and ran hundreds of tests in sealed chambers to see if the control module - the heart of any modern power train because it dictates how much fuel the engine burns by microseconds - can be influenced by an electromagnetic pulse such as an electrical line or even a stray cell-phone signal. But the tests, the company said, turned up nothing. (See the Toyota Venza in the most...
...article also incorrectly quoted Barrios as calling his marriage an action that embolded and surprised the queer community...
...dialogue is packed with ironic jokes and self-referential winks that sail over children of the appropriate age to read Dahl, and while its narrative rarely stagnates (at barely an hour and a half, it can’t afford to), most of the film’s action operates a shade below that of an average episode of “Wallace and Grommit...