The killjoys initiated automobile crash standards so rigorous that we can't buy a car that hasn't been dropped from the top of a phone pole with our whole family strapped inside.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. And that's a challenging proposition.
With respect to sticking accelerator pedals, we failed to connect the dots between problems in Europe and problems in the United States because the European situation related primarily to right-hand-drive vehicles. Toyota will increase its outreach to government agencies charged with protecting the safety of motorists and passengers.
There's no way we could take cars off the planet and not have our society fall apart. So they're a necessary evil, in that sense.
The notion that we would market devices that would allow someone to place themselves beyond the law troubles me a lot.
A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.
Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn't have to come in contact with it.
We could live in a much better society if there was less personal car ownership.
I have a lot of respect for the auto manufacturers. They make a product people live inside - and can die inside - so they are held to very high standards.
Cars are the reason we, you know, people live or die.