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Toyota was also forced to pay a total of $66.2 million in fines to the Department of Transportation for failing to handle recalls properly and $25.5 million to Toyota shareholders whose stock lost value due to recalls. Nearly 400 wrongful-death and personal injury cases were also privately settled by Toyota as a result of unintended acceleration.
A study by Exponent Inc. finding that the short circuit "would be highly unlikely to occur naturally" and could "only be contrived in the laboratory" was also issued. [202] Toyota further demonstrated how Gilbert had allegedly shaved away wiring insulation, cut wires in the ETC, re-spliced them in a particular sequence, and added a control switch.
U.S. officials announced a $1.6 billion deal with Toyota's Hino Motors unit to settle charges it deceived regulators about the amount of emissions spewed by its diesel engines.
Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. v. Williams, 534 U.S. 184 (2002), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States interpreted the meaning of the phrase "substantially impairs" as used in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
By Sara Rodriguez, Sage ESG Research Analyst About Toyota Motor Corporation Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese multinational automotive company that designs, manufacturers, and sells passenger ...
When Tony Le set out with his wife to buy a new car last year, he looked at Tesla and other all-electric models. In the end, the 37-year-old Modesto, California, tech worker opted for a Toyota ...
The five whys technique has been criticized as a poor tool for root cause analysis. Teruyuki Minoura, former managing director of global purchasing for Toyota, criticized it as being too basic a tool to analyze root causes at the depth necessary to ensure an issue is fixed. [9] Reasons for this criticism include:
Toyota may have pioneered the just-in-time manufacturing strategy but when it comes to chips, its decision to stockpile what have become key components in cars goes back a decade to the Fukushima ...