NHTSA Indicates Almost 90 Deaths May Be Attributed To Toyota Recall

Very interesting! This is just USA how about world wide? Maybe 200 or 300 deaths maybe more! How many injuries are cause by toyota UA? How many other accidents?

This is a serious problem!

On the surface this is a large number of deaths. However I do wonder if you ran the figures on say GM or Ford if they would end up with a number even close.

were talking about deaths not sales why would a comparison even matter........wth

009 do 2 wrongs make a right?

Flying still remains the safest mode of transportation today.

Where are the Toyota defenders? LOL!!!!

Nevermind... they're here, they're just going to deboost and not say a thing. LOL!!

It is hard to gauge a response when we don't know if this figure is typical.

I though BMW was your cup of tea...

*thought (sorry)

"I thought BMW was your cup of tea..."

No. BMW isn't my cup of tea. I'm not brand orientated. There's good and bad with all brands.

Agreed, with Lex. I actually encouraged my dad into a Lexus GS, which he loves. It was the perfect fit for his needs and age.

"What gives me a relief is knowing that then I see someone driving Toyota, chances are that person is not someone like average Toyota hater on this website - may be person with brains, with his own opinion and logic, or may be someone who just does not read the news. "

lol, yes, buying a toyota shows individual opinion... lol

vladyxa,

You sound bitter.

Or... the vast majority of people don't actually know anything about cars/recalls and they continue to buy what their neighbors/friends/relatives bought because most people are lemmings.

Did MotorTrend test 85,000 vehicles? LOL!!!

im sorry but 89 people over the course of like 10 years is practically nothing. Im not discounted their deaths, because it is a tragedy, but how many americans drive a toyota? a few million? and only 89 died? thats .0000000001 percent.

"im sorry but 89 people over the course of like 10 years is practically nothing."

- Tell that to the 100's of Family members.
I can't beleive you went there. So it's OK for a car company to create cars that kill people as long as it isn't a large percentage of people? LOL!! FWIW 1 death is too many. Because that death could be you.

your math is horrible... 8,500,000 recalls, 89 deaths = about 0.001% fatality rate and about a 0.1% reported incident rate, meaning actual incident rates are about 1% Or ~85,000 vehicles

more numbers!

If there are 89 deaths, and 8,500,000 recalls, and the cost to implement a brake over ride is less than $1, then that leaves Toyota making less than $95,500 per death.

That it the issue with such articles. Were the deaths actually the cause of sudden acceleration? Are the figures out of line with other large safety recalls?

The problem ALWAYS is putting it in perspective which is why I commented at the top of the response to make sure people think of these things.

"...Unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles *may* have been involved..."

How many were actually *PROVEN* to be attributed to a defective car?

Now playing in the news near you: Audi Unintended Acceleration, Episode II! That's where a government enquiry into the crisis coined the term "pedal misapplication." But then again, this is an emotionally charged issue, so why should facts come into play? We need to blame someone, and we know that Big Bad Corporations are evil by nature, so we start with a conclusion and work backwards. Anything that suggests driver error is just proof of the Corporate Cover-up. Right?

I'm reserving my judgment for when the dust settles. Meet you back here on the list for a review. I embrace the principle of "innocent until *proven* guilty," but that's just me.

Article states and i quote "Unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles may have been involved in the deaths of 89 people over the past decade"

Which gets me to thinking, It may have been involved in the deaths of 890 people, or 8900 people or 8 people or 0 people.

The fact that MAY was used instead of WAS in my opinion means this is another Stupid Which Hunt.