Toyota-owned automaker halts Japan production after admitting it tampered with safety tests for 30 years | CNN Business::Daihatsu, the Japanese automaker owned by Toyota, has halted production after admitting it falsified data in safety tests for its vehicles for 30 years.

  • RickRussell_CA
    link
    fedilink
    English
    1501 year ago

    Odd that they put “Toyota-owned automaker” in the headline instead of Daihatsu. Or something like, :“Daihatsu, owned by Toyota”.

    Whether the problems go “up the chain” to the parent company is TBD, I guess.

    • @cowpowered@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      61 year ago

      There’s a pretty good reasoning for this in the article:

      “an independent third-party committee had found evidence of tampering with safety tests on as many as 64 vehicle models, including those sold under the Toyota brand.