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Despite preliminary findings that Toyota's software did not play a role in the Prius acceleration, suspicion will likely linger as long as no other cause is positively identified. To put suspicions to rest, Toyota asked Exponent's experts to test the engine's software thoroughly with electromagnetic waves and...
If Toyota's software does have a problem, it would be a serious issue, because the computer module has gradually taken over many functions once controlled by mechanical cables. In fact, electronic controls now handle all the engine functions of modern automobiles, including the opening and closing of the throttle...
2009 To cut costs by 30%, drivers have to use the same engine for three, rather than two, consecutive events and are limited to eight engines per season. Engine limits reduced from 19,000 r.p.m. to 18,000 r.p.m. In-season testing banned.
Toyota's Troubles Re "Toyota's Blown Engine" [Feb. 22]: In the late 1950s I traveled frequently to Japan on business. I've never forgotten the morning when I had a meal at my hotel with two executives from General Motors who were in Japan to teach automakers how to...
It's always fascinating to see someone renounce previously held beliefs. Such unabashed 180s are a rare sight both in politics--where an opinion once stated is by necessity an opinion forever defended--and in academia, which is only slightly less afflicted by the cult of the certain. Diane Ravitch...