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Toyota's Safety, Quality Record Belies Current Piling On By Nick Schulz | The Sacramento Bee
Thursday, April 1, 2010
トヨタの安全性と品質の,これまでの実績は現在起こっている集団的非難と矛盾する By Nick Schulz（AEI)
＊AEIの研究者が,これまでのトヨタ車についての「意図せざる急加速」などに関わる騒ぎを総括して書いているもの
で、トヨタに対して大変好意的な評論になっている。この評論は,起きている集団訴訟についての法律の研究者の
見解などを含めた専門家の見方なので、リベラルメディアに現れているトヨタ叩きと極端なコントラストが有る。AEIの
研究者等は、これまでの騒動を政治的モチベーションの絡んだ空騒ぎ、と見ているように思える。
アメリカの世論や指導者層の考え方を知る上で、メインストリームメディアの表面に出てくる記事や評論だけを見てい
ると、見誤る場合があると思う。
As legal scholar Ted Frank recently noted, "Even if one believes all the hype, the reaction so far has been a giant
overreaction. Fifty-odd deaths over 10 years and millions of Toyotas is a drop in the bucket compared to the
general risk of being on the road at all. It's entirely possible that more people will be killed driving to the dealer for
the recall than lives will be saved from going through the safety theater demanded by the Department of
Transportation."
This might explain why, as my American Enterprise Institute colleague and polling expert Karlyn Bowman recently
pointed out, Toyota owners remain loyal to the company.
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And Toyota should continue to take steps to make its cars as safe as possible. But there is also no denying all
cars made today are better, cheaper and, yes, safer than they would otherwise be if it weren't for Toyota's hard
work over the last half century.