From: cuhulin on
Holding a button down for about four seconds to stop a runaway
Toyota.Sheesh, I don't know,,, How Ludicrous (if that is a fair
word/term to use?) does it get? I don't ever want to own any kind of
so-called modern technology vehicle with that troublesome computerized
fly by wire stuff.Aints ah ever gonna happen with me.Never!
cuhulin

From: Hachiroku ハチロク on
On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:18:38 -0600, cuhulin wrote:

> Holding a button down for about four seconds to stop a runaway
> Toyota.Sheesh, I don't know,,, How Ludicrous (if that is a fair word/term
> to use?) does it get? I don't ever want to own any kind of so-called
> modern technology vehicle with that troublesome computerized fly by wire
> stuff.Aints ah ever gonna happen with me.Never! cuhulin

I like cars.

I like Toyotas.

I like electronics.

I like gadgets.

I like computers.

I DON'T like the idea of a car being CONTROLLED by electronics, gadgets,
or computers.

In aircraft, they are tested, retested, and the tests are tested, and then
the electronics are tested again, and the backup electronics for the
electronics are tested, and the backups for the backups are tested.

Still don't really like it.



From: cuhulin on
I like all of those things too.Aircraft fly by wire are different
though.Even small Aircraft piston engines have two spark plugs for each
cylinder and other redundacy.Last night on the How It's Made tv program
I watched how those Aircraft engines are made.
cuhulin

From: Steve on
My opinion of Toyota hasn't changed at all as a result of all this. I've
always thought they were disposable junk.

:D