For this blog I chose to do the Podcast called “Blame Game” by the Revisionist History.
This podcast was started off with the explanation of an incident a family went through while heading to a soccer game. As the family was driving the brakes of their Toyota failed to stop their moving car. Unfortunately the family was killed in the crash and the news quickly spreaded through the media. This news made another Toyota owners come forward with the same issue.
The power of the media and the power that an owners allegations can have towards a company/person is astounding. After all the allegations that Toyota was releasing cars that weren’t safe to drive, Toyota then had to pay a billion dollars in fines.
It’s almost scary how an allegation towards a company or a person can go to the next level of destroying a reputation. Even with the tests that they provided, many of the cars stopped when they applied the brake at full speed. The allegations that were against Toyota could all be either lying, tagging along to get compensation, or incorrectly driving their car.
The tests they provide show us that unless the drivers were going full speed and not pressing the brake all the way then Toyota has no fault whatsoever. The people who are driving the car should be able to perform the action of stopping the car when it’s moving at such a fast speed. The test they provide in the podcast show us how some drivers might actually be speeding up the car when they think they’re slowing down the car.
This also shows the power that a car can have over someone’s life. If you don’t know what you’re doing behind the wheel, the power the car can have can be powerful enough to take your life and whoever else is in the car or around you. The driver who was driving the Toyota that crashed is believed throughout the podcast that he was not familiar with the car and didn’t apply enough pressure to the brake OR had his foot on the wrong pedal.
The allegations of people who were experiencing brake failure could be lying to not face the fact that they actually do not know how to drive and would rather put the blame on the company just like other Toyota owners are doing. It’s a shame how money hungry people can be. They can become so money hungry enough to the point where they can care less of almost destroying a company’s reputation.
To solve the allegations of every Toyota owner that is accusing of Toyota of their car uncontrollably accelerating or their brakes failing, then the solution would be their driving has to be examined and how they handle a car in general or in an emergency.
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