After initially refusing to attend a Congressional hearing on Toyota Recall safety issues, Toyota's President, Akio Toyoda, has indicated he will in fact attend the hearing.
The hearing will be held this week before the House Committe on Oversight and Government Reform. The purpose of the hearing is to address the public's confusion as to what Toyota vehicles are subject to the recalls, what the recall problems are, and what customers are supposed to do about them. Another important question is: should anyone be driving these Toyota vehicles at all before something is done to fix them?
Shortly before this hearing was scheduled, the U.S. government sent a subpoena to Toyota requesting recall-related documents. The governments wants to know what Toyota knew, and when the company knew it.
Apparently Toyota is refusing to turn over the documents, and actually filed a lawsuit seeking to not disclose them to anyone. It is interesting that Toyota wants to hide documents rather than follow a policy of full disclosure, considering the wide ramifications of the thousands and thousands of Toyota vehicles on our roadways that are defective and can cause serious crashes.
Hopefully the government can get its hands on some, if not all, of the recall-related documents which will serve as useful cross examination information of Toyota's President and other executives.
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