"Without minimizing the issue, we are talking 19 alleged fatalities among
roughly 20 million Toyotas sold here over the last 10 years. That's roughly
one death linked to the recall for every million cars Toyota has sold.
That's small comfort for those victims, of course, but your lifetime odds
of dying in a plane crash (1 in 6,137 flights), a lightning strike (1 in
56,439) or an earthquake (1 in 120,161) are all vastly worse than your
chances of dying in a runaway Toyota.
Or, contrast Toyota's 19 deaths with the roughly 250 fatalities linked to
an exponentially smaller number of Ford Explorers equipped with defective
Firestone tires a decade ago. When those old-school Explorers were flipping
en masse, shining a spotlight on the dangers of SUV rollovers — or when
Ford pickups were spontaneously catching fire, due to a
faulty-ignition-switch whose recall Ford has dragged out for more than a
decade — you didn't see Toyota trying to take advantage of the situation."
http://editorial.autos.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1128584#atoolb
roughly 20 million Toyotas sold here over the last 10 years. That's roughly
one death linked to the recall for every million cars Toyota has sold.
That's small comfort for those victims, of course, but your lifetime odds
of dying in a plane crash (1 in 6,137 flights), a lightning strike (1 in
56,439) or an earthquake (1 in 120,161) are all vastly worse than your
chances of dying in a runaway Toyota.
Or, contrast Toyota's 19 deaths with the roughly 250 fatalities linked to
an exponentially smaller number of Ford Explorers equipped with defective
Firestone tires a decade ago. When those old-school Explorers were flipping
en masse, shining a spotlight on the dangers of SUV rollovers — or when
Ford pickups were spontaneously catching fire, due to a
faulty-ignition-switch whose recall Ford has dragged out for more than a
decade — you didn't see Toyota trying to take advantage of the situation."
http://editorial.autos.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1128584#atoolb
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