Roundup of Cars

We all know first it started with Toyota.


Toyota had a major problem with their brake pedal. There were consumers who complained that they had difficulty stopping the car and that some of the accidents were linked to the malfunctioning brake pedals.


This is what I find really intriguing.

Brake pedals are almost like the life of the car. Without a good brake pedal, the car will just keep moving and it can never avoid any accident with a close shave because the car cannot stop in time.


Nonetheless, Toyota was the first one to trigger off the chain effect. Look at the number of automobile manufacturers recalling their cars now.


Do you realise that such chain effects happen anywhere? I mean not just in this recalling, it happens in the airline business too. I remember a friend telling me, do you know that after an air plane crush, the number of air plane crushes that follow rise significantly?


So I asked why with my abysmal ignorance at that point of time and he replied, "Well, the other pilots are more apprehensive than before and a huge amount of pressure is piled onto them. Naturally they get more nervous and paranoid and the chances of screwing up is definitely higher than before, in fact, way higher than before."


Remember the time whereby you were so confident in getting an A for your test? After seeing so many failures, don't they dampen your hopes?


Same thing here.


Then we move on to Honda who recalled close to 1 million cars worldwide to replace the airbag inflator.

And now we have Mazda's overheating seats. Apparently the problem lies with the CX-9 seat heater which could not be turned off even though the ignition key was turned all the way to the off side.

I won't be surprised if more automobile manufacturers join in the fun. In fact, I'm pretty confident that a lot of other manufacturers will soon join in the recall game.


I mean on the positive note for them, it is not as conspicuous as before if you are going to do the recall now because everyone is doing it.


Imagine at the start, the amount of glaring scrutiny Toyota had to endure, it was painful, really painful.





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