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Toyota-owned automaker halts Japan production after admitting it tampered with safety tests for 30 years | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)

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Toyota-owned automaker halts Japan production after admitting it tampered with safety tests for 30 years | CNN Business::Daihatsu, the Japanese automaker owned by Toyota, has halted production after admitting it falsified data in safety tests for its vehicles for 30 years.

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[–] cowpowered@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's a pretty good reasoning for this in the article:

"an independent third-party committee had found evidence of tampering with safety tests on as many as 64 vehicle models, including those sold under the Toyota brand."

[–] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

And, presumably other brands that come from Daihatsu plants. Assuming the safety issues are only within Daihatsu facilities, that's the key information. "Daihatsu, a Toyota subsidiary" or similar conveys the useful information. "Toyota-owned automaker" does not.

As it stands, it sounds like CNN is trying to vaugely imply that the problem applies to Toyota generally, which obvs will get a lot of clicks from people who own Toyotas. That's sloppy clickbait.