Toyota Recalls 2.3 Million Vehicles For Sticking Accelerator Pedal
03-15-2010, 11:42 AM
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Yes, were you?
I know I was here for the American manufacturer's major advancements in the areas of mass produced: ABS braking/active handling/airbag/composite body panel/towing-hauling/horsepower to fuel economy ratio technologies (late '90s) among others.
Not sure where anyone else was for some of that though.
I know I was here for the American manufacturer's major advancements in the areas of mass produced: ABS braking/active handling/airbag/composite body panel/towing-hauling/horsepower to fuel economy ratio technologies (late '90s) among others.
Not sure where anyone else was for some of that though.
03-15-2010, 03:18 PM
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The Honda NSX was the first mass produced automobile with the modern 4-channel ABS system sold in the United States and Japan
03-15-2010, 06:36 PM
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You just shot yourself in the foot, there. All your wikipedia source says is that Honda took existing technology developed by someone else and put it on one of their cars before the original designer did (original designer put it on trucks).
03-15-2010, 08:57 PM
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No all his source says is that it was the first car to have it AND be sold in the USA and JAPAN.
If it was true then the sentence would read as follows:
Originally Posted by Some bullshit source
The Honda NSX was the first mass produced automobile with the modern 4-channel ABS system sold in the United States and Japan
The Honda NSX was the first mass produced automobile with the modern 4-channel ABS system. It was sold in the United States and Japan.
03-15-2010, 11:40 PM
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They said it, not me http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-lock_braking_system
Chrysler with the 3 channel:
"Chrysler, together with the Bendix Corporation, introduced a true computerized three-channel all-wheel antilock brake system called "Sure Brake" on the 1971 Imperial"
And then the Germans with the 4 channel:
"The German firms Bosch and Daimler-Benz had been co-developing anti-lock braking technology since the early 1970s, and introduced the first completely electronic 4-wheel multi-channel ABS system in trucks and the Mercedes-Benz S-Class in 1978"
As usual, the Japs are not the first with anything.
03-16-2010, 12:55 AM
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And of course this thread would be nothing without Wesman... if you would all like to say that Japanese companies make nothing but garbage and their engineers have no talent, that's fine.
03-16-2010, 10:40 AM
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There are very few true "innovations" in the automotive industry anymore. Everything is an adaptation or improvement on an idea that came before it. Sometimes the greatest innovations are improvements on previous ideas that make the technology affordable and available to the masses.
03-16-2010, 05:27 PM
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There are very few true "innovations" in the automotive industry anymore. Everything is an adaptation or improvement on an idea that came before it. Sometimes the greatest innovations are improvements on previous ideas that make the technology affordable and available to the masses.
03-16-2010, 05:46 PM
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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/innovating
innovating - 3.Archaic. to alter.
innovation - 2.the act of innovating; introduction of new things or methods
03-16-2010, 06:52 PM
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03-16-2010, 10:10 PM
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There are very few true "innovations" in the automotive industry anymore. Everything is an adaptation or improvement on an idea that came before it. Sometimes the greatest innovations are improvements on previous ideas that make the technology affordable and available to the masses.
03-16-2010, 10:13 PM
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They said it, not me http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-lock_braking_system
"In 1975, Robert Bosch took over a European company called Teldix (contraction of Telefunken and Bendix) and all patents registered by this joint-venture and used this acquisition to build the base of the ABS system introduced on the market some years later. The German firms Bosch and Daimler-Benz had been co-developing anti-lock braking technology since the early 1970s, and introduced the first completely electronic 4-wheel multi-channel ABS system in trucks and the Mercedes-Benz S-Class in 1978."
03-17-2010, 08:57 AM
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Or...
The American and German manufacturers led the way for the entire industry for nearly a century. Japan was very late to the game, everything had either been done or developed but never implemented. Japan had nothing left but to tweak existing designs.
Keep in mind that GM was using fuel injection years before Honda and Toyota even existed
The American and German manufacturers led the way for the entire industry for nearly a century. Japan was very late to the game, everything had either been done or developed but never implemented. Japan had nothing left but to tweak existing designs.
Keep in mind that GM was using fuel injection years before Honda and Toyota even existed
03-17-2010, 10:47 AM
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Or...
The American and German manufacturers led the way for the entire industry for nearly a century. Japan was very late to the game, everything had either been done or developed but never implemented. Japan had nothing left but to tweak existing designs.
Keep in mind that GM was using fuel injection years before Honda and Toyota even existed
The American and German manufacturers led the way for the entire industry for nearly a century. Japan was very late to the game, everything had either been done or developed but never implemented. Japan had nothing left but to tweak existing designs.
Keep in mind that GM was using fuel injection years before Honda and Toyota even existed
Legendary names like Gottlieb Diamler and Ransom Olds are what come to mind when you think of the invention of the automobile.
Not gook names like Akyoto Kakazaki Toyoda
