Toyota To Begin Making Driver Safety A Top Priority

In the year since Toyota Motor Corp. was engulfed in a massive safety and recall crisis, the automaker is making big and little changes across its global operations to restore its reputation and to react better and faster to signs of trouble in its vehicles.

Toyota identified many lapses on its own, but some key measures that it adopted were recommended by a panel of experts led by former U.S. Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater.

The panel urged Toyota to regard safety as a top-priority issue and not just part of overall quality. It advised them to adjust its consensus-driven management structure to speed up response times, and be as vigilant against management failures as it is with production glitches.

pepito66 - 9/23/2011 9:11:28 AM

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Wow interesting as I know and they always said this is a priority for them, interesting.

LexSucks - 9/23/2011 9:34:01 AM

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No need for them to make safety a top priority. Toyotas are already the safest cars ever created.

LexSucks - 9/23/2011 10:27:54 AM

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Are they not the safest cars ever created in the history of mankind? You can drop a Camry from the top of the Grand Canyon and it will hardly get scratched.

LexSucks - 9/23/2011 10:45:12 AM

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angryinch1,

Do you not agree? The only vehicles that survived the Joplin Tornados were Toyotas. In fact, during a Tornado, the inside of a Toyota is the safest place to be.

LexSucks - 9/23/2011 11:19:05 AM

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"I will not answer questions from the village idiot." — angry1inchpenis

- This coming from a man who prays to the Toyota God. A person who views Toyota as absolute perfection and would never ever acknowledge a Toyota flaw because he believes that they simply do not exist. A person like that is who I would call the Village Idiot. And the person who I just described is you.

Maulvader - 9/23/2011 7:20:24 PM

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Lexsucks, do you ever have anything meaningful to contribute? Something one might read and go, "That's interesting!", or "I didn't know that"

LexSucks - 9/23/2011 7:42:55 PM

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@Maulvader

Next time I'll send you an Email of what I'll post beforehand to get your approval. Get over yourself dude.

Maulvader - 9/23/2011 9:34:48 PM

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@Lexsucks
So I guess the answer to my question is 'no' then?

poot66 - 9/24/2011 10:39:25 PM

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well that tornado joke was pretty funny. not to mention that is a stupid statement for toyota to make. one would like to think that that would have been something they had already concerned themselves with.

800over - 9/23/2011 10:20:45 AM

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Gotta love 009's made up headlines....

Agent009 - 9/23/2011 10:34:32 AM

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The title stands as it is:

Toyota is making global changes in response to safety issues incurred with their products and the way they handle it. These issues now take top priority.

Where they were before is left to you to figure out.

Agent009 - 9/23/2011 10:35:26 AM

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Only love and peace here..

LexSucks - 9/23/2011 11:25:16 AM

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"Get real. If not for Toyota and Lexus hatred here at Autospies, there would be almost no one posting."

- It's either that or insane ridiculous Toyota/Lexus fan boy posts.

grenouille - 9/23/2011 1:52:26 PM

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Hava a safe trip back from the moon, when you get back from your galactic ''buzz '', reality will hit you.....

grenouille - 9/24/2011 12:04:28 AM

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Thats right except for Toyota , it's much more reassuring to see a brand thinking about safety than design sooner or later Hyundai will have to face reliability issues we will see then how will they react.

Fijian - 9/23/2011 2:18:07 PM

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I agree with Eldard for the first time.Hyundai is really kicking the Japanese into the corner (except Nissan/Infiniti)

MorePower - 9/24/2011 1:27:38 AM

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Why must one be considered a "hater" if he/she makes fair, honest criticisms? Toyota made some gambles to be the number one automaker in the world. Now that they are not, it makes sense to regroup and reevaluate their priorities, even if it only occurs in a press release.

kpaxx - 9/26/2011 2:02:58 PM

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So this means toyota will do more marketing saying they make safe cars! But not really change anything!