US files charge against Toyota, $1.2B penalty

spoon059 wrote:
On edit... the linked article says the same thing I just wrote. Its a much more technically correct answer there. Essentially Toyota didn't have a brake override on the drive-by-wire system.

What ticks me off is they didn't bother/care to/see the need for/spend the money on/think enough about their customers to install the brake override technology until it was blaringly obvious it needs to be there. To me it's borderline stupidity to think it would never be needed. Are they so arrogant to think their electronics could never fail? Makes me worry what other features they don't deem necessary, safety or otherwise.