The 2008 auditing report and form 990 both use the calendar year, so there is a fair chance that they are using the calendar year for taxes.
It also mentions that the IRS is investigating their classification of certain income. It is sort of entertaining, their status as a public foundation is in question, so they have to ask people for donations (to try to be publicly supported), but they get far more money from their deal with Google than they are currently able to intelligently spend.
Mechanical linkage means that the brake pedal is mechanically connected to the brakes. The boost system may be controlled by a computer, but pressing the pedal will actuate the brakes whether the boost system is working or not.
The point that my post most rests upon is the point that there are not widespread reports of broken brake linkages in the problem vehicles. Where there many cases of such breakage (heh), there would be blood in the water and Toyota America would be going out of business.
How much money do you want to spend and how much inconvenience do you want to put up with in order to protect the population that has a problem?
Your questioning about what number is low enough is an appealing line of reasoning, but eventually it leads to a world where no one can have a hammer, because they might hit their finger. But we need hammers, so we put up with the fact that we might occasionally injure ourselves when using them.
And your comparison to BP is pretty much a tuna, no one would argue that drilling for oil is perfectly safe, only that the risks are usually manageable, and thus the comparison to the Toyota situation would be in terms of what level of risks and consequences we are willing to accept when dealing with powerful, complex machines that can easily kill their operators. Personally, I don't really care if the cars are perfect, it is quite clear that they are really fucking good, so I don't care to pursue such a discussion.
Well, lotteries are usually rigged by the organizers to have a winner, it isn't clear what the root cause is in these incidents, so we have to take the available evidence and speculate. And my point isn't that a failure rate of 1 in 100,000 is obviously low enough to indicate a reasonable design, just that it may be low enough to indicate a reasonable design that is occasionally overcome by a user.
Right, the mechanical brake linkage regularly failed at the same time as the brake sensor failed to no pedal and the accelerator sensor failed to full pedal.
I pretty sure the part you liked was that he could move his workspace to a different device, the idea that he had to make 2 specific, complicated gestures doesn't seem like a feature to me, at most he should have had to tap on the mobile device twice, regardless of where he was (once to bring up workspaces that he used recently and again to select the appropriate one).
So the computers being able to access/share the same information and track what he was doing was a lot more important than the (apparently horrible) UI they (apparently) showed in the movie (I haven't seen it, no 3D theater was close enough to justify the trip, especially with my poor stereo vision).
It is somewhat surprising how few people realize how terrible software still is.
I have more coverage than that for about $250 a year. At that price, risking your house seems a little crazy (but maybe not if you have a second home that you rent out or whatever).
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The 2008 auditing report and form 990 both use the calendar year, so there is a fair chance that they are using the calendar year for taxes.
It also mentions that the IRS is investigating their classification of certain income. It is sort of entertaining, their status as a public foundation is in question, so they have to ask people for donations (to try to be publicly supported), but they get far more money from their deal with Google than they are currently able to intelligently spend.
Information on unreported incidents cannot exist, so it isn't quite so easy to make comparisons that are known to be reliable.
Where is such information? The information here is getting stale:
http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/documents/
The foundations finances aren't open.
Sure, but the proposed failure is in 3 separate components, has to happen in all 3 simultaneously, and leaves zero evidence behind.
Mechanical linkage means that the brake pedal is mechanically connected to the brakes. The boost system may be controlled by a computer, but pressing the pedal will actuate the brakes whether the boost system is working or not.
Maybe the ECUs are into astrology.
The point that my post most rests upon is the point that there are not widespread reports of broken brake linkages in the problem vehicles. Where there many cases of such breakage (heh), there would be blood in the water and Toyota America would be going out of business.
How much money do you want to spend and how much inconvenience do you want to put up with in order to protect the population that has a problem?
Your questioning about what number is low enough is an appealing line of reasoning, but eventually it leads to a world where no one can have a hammer, because they might hit their finger. But we need hammers, so we put up with the fact that we might occasionally injure ourselves when using them.
And your comparison to BP is pretty much a tuna, no one would argue that drilling for oil is perfectly safe, only that the risks are usually manageable, and thus the comparison to the Toyota situation would be in terms of what level of risks and consequences we are willing to accept when dealing with powerful, complex machines that can easily kill their operators. Personally, I don't really care if the cars are perfect, it is quite clear that they are really fucking good, so I don't care to pursue such a discussion.
Obviously the insurance company took the new information about your driving environment to heart.
It's like when I go to the candy store and give them $0.25, I am lollipopped.
In my car, the steering column will not lock unless the automatic transmission is in park.
In a car with a manual transmission, an out of control throttle is easily dealt with using the clutch pedal.
That's only true for the hybrids. The shift level and brake pedal are mechanically linked to the transmission and brakes in most of Toyota's fleet.
Only the hybrids have brake-by-wire, the rest of them have a mechanical linkage.
Well, lotteries are usually rigged by the organizers to have a winner, it isn't clear what the root cause is in these incidents, so we have to take the available evidence and speculate. And my point isn't that a failure rate of 1 in 100,000 is obviously low enough to indicate a reasonable design, just that it may be low enough to indicate a reasonable design that is occasionally overcome by a user.
NHTSA has the brake mechanicals, they can examine them. To me, this indicates that the part that doesn't add up is usually the driver's story.
If 1 in 100,000 people cannot properly operate a device, it might be fair to conclude that the problem is with the people.
Right, the mechanical brake linkage regularly failed at the same time as the brake sensor failed to no pedal and the accelerator sensor failed to full pedal.
Pave France.
If you want to be empirical, have a reliable third party start taking screen shots of your comment page.
That's spelled "realist".
It seems more likely that there is a general tendency for your last half dozen or so comments to have been moderated down.
I don't know, you seem a bit defensive for a sane person.
I pretty sure the part you liked was that he could move his workspace to a different device, the idea that he had to make 2 specific, complicated gestures doesn't seem like a feature to me, at most he should have had to tap on the mobile device twice, regardless of where he was (once to bring up workspaces that he used recently and again to select the appropriate one).
So the computers being able to access/share the same information and track what he was doing was a lot more important than the (apparently horrible) UI they (apparently) showed in the movie (I haven't seen it, no 3D theater was close enough to justify the trip, especially with my poor stereo vision).
It is somewhat surprising how few people realize how terrible software still is.
I have more coverage than that for about $250 a year. At that price, risking your house seems a little crazy (but maybe not if you have a second home that you rent out or whatever).