Occam's Razor, Toyota, NASA and Gremlins

OI Ventures ^ | 3/30/2010 | J. Williams

[CriticalThinking]

I spent a good part of my career as an engineer involved in complex aerospace systems. When I think of all the complexity that goes into aircraft design, I am impressed that our engineering process deliver such a high quality and safe solution. I have always thought a great deal of Toyota and their talent. The loss of life from unintended acceleration is a great tragedy. Frankly its amazing there are not more automotive deaths given the range of drivers and capabilities.....

[sticker]

Didn’t NASA have a space craft crash on the moon because they of an issue with the metric system?

[Waverunner]

Actually it was the grinding of the hubble’s mirror

[Perdogg]

right, someone made an improper conversion. It was not the moon but one of the Mars landers.

[Red Badger]

Schrodinger’s Cat was killed by Occam’s Razor..............

[sticker]

Thanks, can always count on a Freeper

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

An old principle Occam's Razor says, "given all the possible explanations, the simplest is often correct."

Obama's Razor: Toyota is competing against government motors. Toyota isn't unionized. Slice them.

[Abathar]

Apollo 13 was a voltage change that no one updated from engineering to manufacturing.

Being connected with the auto industry myself and dealing with some of the engineers there I have to say my answer is hell yes it’s amazing more aren’t killed.

[William Tell]

Won't it be wonderful when Toyotas are just as safe as the Space Shuttle?

Nasa's safety record is that about 2% of space shuttles blow-up, killing all aboard.

Figuring about 10,000,000 Toyotas on the road in the U.S., that would mean we can look forward to about 200,000 blown up Toyotas.

[ArrogantBustard]

The Space Shuttle's safety record seems to be a 1% chance of catastrophic failure and 1% chance of catastrophic failure on reentry.

The combined safety record of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo is ZERO catastrophic failures in >20 flights.

IMO, catastrophic failure involves complete hull loss and loss of life.

[ArrogantBustard]

The Space Shuttle’s safety record seems to be a 1% chance of catastrophic failure on launch and 1% chance of catastrophic failure on reentry.

[YankeeReb]

Funny how Toyota is being trashed in the media just after Soetoro's takeover of GM and Chrysler. Cars have had defects and major recalls in the past but it seems like there's a lot of piling on in Toyota's case.

If I has a few bucks I'd buy 100 shares of Toyota purely as a speculative play and wait for all the hysteria to die down.

[Redleg Duke]

No it wasn’t an “improper conversion”. The two opposing engineering teams each assumed that the other was using their units of measure, i.e. English vs Metric, I believe.

[JoeProBono]

[Revolting cat!]

[Zathras]

That was Mars.

[BikerJoe]

The Space Shuttle's safety record seems to be a 1% chance of catastrophic failure and 1% chance of catastrophic failure on reentry. The combined safety record of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo is ZERO catastrophic failures in >20 flights.

I seem to recall that a 2% failure rate has been pretty consistent for ALL medium and heavy lift vehicles (maybe only ones using solid fuel, can't remember).

[Dick Holmes]

Did someone mention Gremlins?

[antiRepublicrat]

The last big scare of this type was the Audi 5000, and that was driver error.

[444Flyer]

Obama's Razor: Toyota is competing against government motors. Toyota isn't unionized. Slice them.

Obama doesn't want anybody competing with his clown cars. Wonder what Occam's Razor would reveal about this bit of information.

"GM Recalls 1.5 Million Vehicles for Various Problems"

DETROIT November 4, 2004; Reuters reported that General Motors Corp. has recalled nearly 1.5 million vehicles in North America, including 946,817 sport utility vehicles, to fix tail lights that could loosen and flicker, the automaker said on Thursday.

Also included in four separate recalls are 204,317 mid-size cars for an accelerator that could stick, causing the car to continue speeding and possibly result in a crash.

GM, the world's largest automaker, has recalled a total of 10.47 million vehicles in the United States, Canada and Mexico this year through the end of October, above the total of 7.8 million for all of 2003, spokesman Alan Adler said.

It's not wrong when the Unions do it!!!

http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2004/11/04/272345.html