{"id":3471,"date":"2010-03-07T11:29:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T16:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=3471"},"modified":"2010-03-07T11:46:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T16:46:39","slug":"why-its-so-hard-for-toyota-to-find-out-whats-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/03\/07\/why-its-so-hard-for-toyota-to-find-out-whats-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Why It&#8217;s So Hard For Toyota To Find Out What&#8217;s Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"Washinton Post article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/03\/06\/AR2010030602448.html?hpid=sec-business\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the article in <em>The Washington Post<\/em>.\u00a0 The journalist author, Frank Ahrens, has a <q>bachelor of sciences (degree) in mechanical engineering<\/q>.<\/p>\n<p>Ahrens does an excellent job of explaining how engineers go about finding the causes of failures in complex human-electro-mechanical systems such as the modern day automobile.<\/p>\n<p>By inference, you can understand why a well run engineering organization does not solve problems by using a technique modeled after a congressional inquiry.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"border-style: ridge; color: #238e23; border-width: 0.3125em;\" \/>\n<p>By comparison <strong><a title=\"USA Today story\" href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/driveon\/post\/2010\/03\/did-abc-news-doctor-its-report-on-runaway-toyota-tests\/1?csp=hf\" target=\"_blank\">follow this<\/a><\/strong> link to the <em>USA Today<\/em> story <q>Did ABC News alter report on runaway Toyota tests?<\/q>  This shows how an irresponsible news organization, ABC, goes about covering a story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to the article in The Washington Post.\u00a0 The journalist author, Frank Ahrens, has a bachelor of sciences (degree) in mechanical engineering. Ahrens does an excellent job of explaining how engineers go about finding the causes of failures in complex human-electro-mechanical systems such as the modern day automobile. By inference, you can understand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3471"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3476,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions\/3476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}