Chat with reporter Ken Bensinger on Toyota
Times reporter Ken Bensinger, along with colleague Ralph Vartabedian, has been covering the Toyota story since September -- before the automaker issued its first recall.
Bensinger chatted with readers about the story. You can read the transcript of the chat by clicking "replay" in the gray box below.
Ken,
When I read your breaking story on Toyota's defects months ago, I feel a relief that there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that somehow my 2006 Prius' defective brake would be acknowledged and get fix. A long way to go!
By the way, I just cc you on an email that I sent to Henry Waxman who is chairing a hearing next Thursday, 2-25-10.
I would like to make the following suggestion for you to further investigate: (1) the embedded firmware in the CEU, how are these hundreds and thousands line of code are written, tested and verified; (2) EMI testing of the all their electronics. There are four broad classes of EMI, conducted emission, conducted susceptibility, radiated emission and radiated susceptibility.
Thanks for your superb reporting.
Posted by: Ernie Lau | February 18, 2010 at 12:19 PM