Japanese car manufacturers including Toyota admit manipulating safety testing data
Japanese car manufacturers including Toyota admit manipulating safety testing data
www.abc.net.au Japanese car manufacturers including Toyota admit manipulating safety testing data
Toyota — the world's biggest car manufacturer by volume — has admitted incorrectly testing airbag inflation and crash damage, with probes also underway into fuel efficiency and emissions data.
- In short: A number of auto manufacturers in Japan have admitted errors in safety testing spanning a decade.
- Toyota's chairman has apologised for the faults, with manufacturing and export now suspended for several models made by Toyota, Mazda, Yamaha and Honda.
- What's next? Investigations are ongoing into emissions and fuel efficiency testing at Toyota.
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Well, plenty of them manipulated emissions results for years, why wouldn't they be doing the same in other areas?