Wozniak to Toyota: Recall My Prius! 'Bad Software' Scary

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/01/Steve_Wozniak_Creativity_in_the_21st_Century

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak voices his frustration with Toyota for not acknowledging a software glitch he discovered in his 2010 Prius that causes the accelerator to go wild under certain conditions of cruise control. "It's in the software, it's not a bad accelerator pedal," he says. "It can be very scary, but luckily for me I can hit the brake."

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Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder and philanthropist in conversation at the Discovery Forum 2010 with Emmy-award winning journalist Dana King from CBS 5 Eyewitness News.

Renowned technology pioneer Steve Wozniak speaks to the importance of hands-on learning and encouraging creativity, and how the Bay Area Discovery Museum is a critical resource for preparing children for the challenges of the 21st century.

The Discovery Forum serves to increase awareness about the importance of childhood creativity, and raises support for the Museum's educational exhibitions and programs. - Bay Area Discovery Forum

A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for the past three decades, Steve Wozniak, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Wheels of Zeus (wOz), helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple's first line of products the Apple I and II and influenced the popular Macintosh. For his achievements at Apple Computer, Steve was awarded the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States in 1985, the highest honor bestowed America's leading innovators.

In 2000 Steve was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame and was awarded the prestigious Heinz Award for Technology, The Economy and Employment for "single-handedly designing the first personal computer and for then redirecting his lifelong passion for mathematics and electronics toward lighting the fires of excitement for education in grade school students and their teachers."

Making significant investments of both his time and resources in education, Wozniak "adopted" the Los Gatos School District, providing students and teachers with hands-on teaching and donations of state-of-the-art technology equipment. Wozniak founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and was the founding sponsor of the Tech Museum, Silicon Valley Ballet and Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose.

Steve is currently a member of the board of directors for Jacent, a developer of cost-effective telephony solutions, and Danger, Inc., developer of a end-to-end wireless Internet platform.

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[MrShayneOneill]

@Hlub1vuagdua Thats the woz your calling a disgrace there. He's the man who invented the personal computer. If woz says a computer is broken, goddamn it, its broken.

[1000Sunz]

I am certain that several times in my life cruise control has bugged out on me and accelerated when I was not commanding that. I never use the hand controls for acceleration anyway. As a computer programmer, I think its a bad idea to computerize the fuel controls (from cruise, or the pedal).

[wikieditspam]

@worldbeater1 No kidding, but the Prius does use minerals from Canada, and there are deadzones caused by the mines and their processing plants. I still think that's a better idea to work towards making increasingly more practical electric cars, and that we should be building infrastructures around Nuclear power (preferably not built on active fault lines nor cheap corner cuts in safety standards) and thermal solar power everywhere that it's applicable. Until then, drive diesel.

[worldbeater1]

@wikieditspam everything in Top Gear is setup They even driven an electric car almost out of batteries just to get good television at the start of the real test.

[wikieditspam]

watch the top gear episode about just how damaging the production of the Prius is, travel to the mines, quarries and processing plants in Canada, from which they ship through Norway, to China where they create the foam that they use in the battery, go to Japan where they finish the cars before shipping to the US, where they're driven on trucks to the state you live in.

[johnshredder1]

@Hlub1vuagdua yes toyota are way better than the US made crap but hey companies are run by humans and humans make mistakes!

[PaperStackersUnion]

is that the new iLaughtrack program?

[rjgoverna]

Why are those idiots constantly laughing?

[Hlub1vuagdua]

you are a disgrace to the human society... I've owned more than 7 Toyotas and they all drive like charm... for those "Toyota" haters... u just need to find a reason to put more pride into your American POS and to get you out of bankruptcy... wipe that pride of your face... none of your chevy & ford will ever match up to Toyota... bet on it...

[julianbell90]

well in some cruise control systems, there is a feature that allows you to increase the speed of the car without using the pedal