You can follow along at the Committee stream or on CSPAN. Here are the witnesses for today’s hearing with links to testimony (PDF) attached: PANEL I The Honorable Raymond H. LaHood Secretary U.S. Department of Transportation Mr. David L. Strickland Administrator National Highway Traffic Safety Administration PANEL II Mr. Akio Toyoda President and CEO Toyota [...]

My takeaway of the first of two hearings on Toyota’s unintended acceleration problem (the other will be at 11:00 today) is that Toyota has locked away the answers in Japan. By design. Recalls A key to understanding how this worked is how recalls were decided. In response to a question from John Dingell, Toyota US [...]

Last week I promised I would come back and explain why the report Toyota had produced, purportedly claiming that they had shown they don’t have a software/electronic problem with their electronic throttle controls, did no such thing. I never got around to doing that, but I was going to show that the report only tested [...]

The Toyota hearings this week–particularly Wednedsay’s hearing featuring Akio Toyoda–are looking more and more devastating. The Detroit News reports that the House Oversight Committee has an internal Toyota presentation from last July boasting that it had saved $100 million by doing its bullshit floor mat recall in 2007, rather than isolating the real source of [...]

As you may know, there are a slew of hearings scheduled next week to try to understand the Toyota brake problems. The head of Toyota (and grandson of the company founder) caused a bit of a stir yesterday when he tried to correct the mistaken impression that he would testify personally. Akio Toyoda told a [...]