Former Toyota Lawyer: Automaker Hides Safety Problems

[Kimchiluvers]

poor guy

i hope he and his family make it through;)

[VinniOettinger30]

Get the audio from this tune at tubepull doht cohm.

[furiousgeorge1271]

Finally the truth about the Toyota corporation is coming out. I fear however that they will use their endless financial resources (being subsidized by the Japanese government) to make this story disappear as they have with so many issues in the past.

[TheVideo5094]

@furiousgeorge1271 you say that when chrysler payed people under the table.

[MadisonAubie]

In new Toyota ads, they claim to spend $1,000,000 an hour on safety for their vehicles. Do the math. That's 8.76 BILLION dollars a year. Does anyone seriously believe that?

[TheDarkDresser]

Typical response from some is to turn on the whistleblower, as you see in some of  these comments. It's amazing how some people defend, enable and identify with their perpetrator. I have my own theory that: these same people may be engaging in their own improprieties. They identify with the company that is engaging in imprope/illegalr acts and reacts to the whistelblower in the same fashion as the company..

[tascadodani]

go for it man.100% on your side.TOYOTA = MURDER

[bilaczenko]

Faulty chipset algorythms used for computers since 2000, Intel at first denied and then forced into a world wide recall, This evoultionary chipset was created for applications where changing data requires to be processed .I suspect the chipsets algorythms are still faulty, for example algorythms, 10 cannot be divisable by 3 to give a definative answer unless rounding up. I think faulty chipset algorthms is where stems near collisions in avaition and national shipping and storage ,etc

[327MONEY20]

Punish Toyota in the next couple years deaths will rise dramatically!

[emforty2]

we never talked about GM that took 50BILLION of taxypayers money and filed for bankruptcy

all we hear about is how to punish TOYOTA

[MadisonAubie]

@emforty2 : First off, the 6.7, not "50", billion that GM Borrowed, no bailout, has already been repaid. Toyota, which is subsidized by the Japanese government with socialized medicine in it's home country, KNEW about a lethal safety issue, and hid it from the public. In that time, other Toyota owners lost their lives because of Toyota hiding this safety issue. Who would YOU punish, the company that took out a loan, and repaid it early, or the company that hid a safety issue, costing lives????

[TheVideo5094]

@MadisonAubie You guys should punish chrysler for the tailgate lash,and break shift interlock which has REAL proof not govt. liars

[TheVideo5094]

@emforty2 right and gm is doing crap under protection by law.while toyota has minor problems.

[Z28HAHACYA]

@TheVideo5094 Killing US citizens is a "minor problem" to you? Sicko.

[mikembz1]

Mr.lawyer you need to go back to your mental health care professional and get different medication you don't know nothing about cars and fuck you abc news.

[newmama007]

Thank goodness there are brave people like Dimitrios Biller in this world. Toyota has clearly shown a track record of cover-ups and making millions of dollars by not correcting problems that kill people. Shame on them! Biller knew them better than anyone and obviously knew they would try to destroy him personally. What a horrible company. So glad I don't own a Toyota.

[trinoma88]

any other company wants to hire him?

[SuperBigGulps]

Toyota - "Moving Forward" - Even when you let your foot off the gas pedal..

Toyota - "Moving Forward" - Even when you stomp on the brakes..

Toyota - "Moving Forward" - Even when you shift into neutral & pull the E-brake.

Toyota - "Moving Forward" - Until it slams into the back of a semi-truck @ 110 mph

[trydac]

The only hipocrit I see here is Biller. What a disgruntled employee. Ya, lets hope that you don't get called in court or you will get burned.

And yes, you are crazy and I don't believe you one bit.

[coandcaiv]

fuck you abc news...you son of a bitch's

[swartzautoman]

million Wilderness AT tires made in Decatur, Illinois.

But Explorer occupants were still at risk. Additional tires not included in the first recall were deemed by the government to be defective on October 4, 2001, and were eventually recalled. Difficulties with tire blowout-induced rollovers continue in Ford Explorers, even on models not equipped with Firestone tires. NHTSA should continue its investigation of safety defects that may afflict Explorers.

[gmracing15]

I believe this guy an not because he says toyota is shit(nothing against the car brand) but my experience with them, repairs driveability and so on! Toyota seems to deflect any problems with their products to human error or wear and tear items even calling some of these issues normal!. but a lot of the toyota owns are conditioned and thus believe their explaination blindly. this IS my view based on my experiences and close friends too mind you,

[TheVideo5094]

@gmracing15 But there is no proof,not even NASA could find any,but Chrysler has severe problems and the NHTSA did nothing.

[gmracing15]

@TheVideo5094 I do not recall any issues in chrysler that would result in the NHTSA too act! Unlike the accusations (and the accident now famous) for Toyota!. REMEMBER! ALL car manufactors build cars with some kind of defect, it's just business. NHTSA will only act if their is prof of a dangerous defect that could indanger peoples lives and/or a large scale faults. I do feel the same way bout NHTSA not doin anything about nissans problems, we'll just wait and see!



[gruffdan]

@gmracing15 Really? Chrysler had a NHTSA with their minivan lift gate latch assembly.

[Z28HAHACYA]

@gruffdan The Toyota Sienna was known for it's sliding side door falling off, either stopped or DRIVING. It's a minivan, usually CHILDREN are in/near minivans. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TOYOTAS FAILURE, I know it's hard, BUT CONCENTRATE ON THE TOPIC!

[swartzautoman]

the gas peddle is a US made pert that is in allot of domestic cars too that are also under recall for the same reason.

its not solely a Toyota problem

when the hammer comes down all companies have been found to be hiding stuff the don't want the general public to know.

Chevy, Banks, Exxon, Ford, Life lock, Gerber, Walmart, ect, ect, ect

we are all at the mercy of the manufacturer

[swartzautoman]

ok, lets say get rid of the whole floor mat issue.

the gas peddle is still a simple 15 min. fix.

your sanding on your soapbox about your insider info that hasn't come to light yet?

its your "opinion"

the floor mat is a real issue, its not a made up lie. thats whats called a "FACT"

other car companies have had problems with it too.

[swartzautoman]

also for those of you that don't know

the issue that prompted all this was a "dealership" using the wrong size floor mats

out of all the cars recalled less than 8% even had a problem

when the car is recalled is not taken away from the owner, its a simple 15 min. fix at the dealed

[BenRichards87]

@swartzautoman theres nothing wrong with the floor mats dumb shit. thats just another lie that toyota has spewed. toyota is run by criminals. don't believe anything they say. once they come out and start addmiting mistakes, you know they are in deep shit. its always going to be 1000 times worse than they make it sound. don't trust them.

[tenacioustaut]

According to Bloomberg Businessweek, Toyota won a temporary ruling against the company's former lawyer, Dimitrios Biller, who claims to have some 6,000 confidential documents that prove the company hid evidence in previous rollover-accident suits.

These are the same documents that the plaintiffs lawyer E. Todd Tracy said didn't contain a "shred of evidence" in December.

[tenacioustaut]

hypocracy and deception,

sounds like he is talking about LAWYERS

[leemmee]

can never learn enough & who never had regrets :(

[leemmee]

i thought i believe the finance gurus of past too Lol

[avitech77]

LOL before it was the Ford Pinto, the Chevy Corvair, and the AMC Pacer causing safety issues. Now it's TOYOTA!

[swartzautoman]

what a retard. ive seen the whole interview.

toyota doesn't do the crash tests, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety does.

court of law will show this guy to be an ass

[avitech77]

Car companies do perform their own crash tests. Look at Volvo for example.

[swartzautoman]

sure, they "test" them, for there own research

but not the final "REAL" crash test

[admiraljimmy]

Car companies do their own tests, the highway saftey department do the final ones.

And sorry buddy, but you're a retard if you think toyota doesn't hide anything. Well retard or toyota owner, same thing though right?

[swartzautoman]

i guess your a Ford owner then

Fords had 14 recalls with over 10 million cars/trucks involved, why isnt that in the news. so ford doesn't hid "anything" RIGHT

run your car for 300k miles and ill run my POS Toyota and see who has the fewest problems

just look at the Consumers Report,

ignorance never does show much reason

[admiraljimmy]

Send me a link for Ford recalling 10million cars at the same time, and I'll drop down and kiss your ass. Ford's had recalls over the years, wow, that's what you'd expect from a company that's been around for over 100 YEARS. Toyota's been fucked up since the day they started. But some people, you, aren't smart enough to realise, even after they recalled 9 million cars in a month.

[TheVideo5094]

@admiraljimmy really Chrysler did illegal stuff in the 1990's and NHTSA let them by,GM has done the same and over the years Ford has recalled more than ten million cars.

[admiraljimmy]

@TheVideo5094 I really don't care about chrysler, I think the new challenger is nice(ish), and they have a couple decent cars finally almost 3 years after the bailout, but they're not the same chrysler they were in the 60's and 70's, I mean how many companies own chrysler now? As far as Ford goes, you said it yourself, over the years, decades, toyota hit 10million+ in a matter of months, because they knew how much they fucked up. Now every company is issuing recalls over the smallest things.

[Z28HAHACYA]

@TheVideo5094 Can you back that up with a stated fact, or are you just SPOUTING crap???

[tenacioustaut]

I wonder how much this guy got paid for all the interviews.

Tiger's mistresses got millions