NYTimes.com Toyotas Are Safe (Enough) http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/toyotas-are-safe-enough/?ref=opinion Robert Wright, writer for the Opinionator Online Commentary section of The New York Times, writes about how the Toyota recall situation has been completely blown out of proportion by the media and the American people.
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My back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that if you drive one of the Toyotas recalled for acceleration problems and dont bother to comply with the recall, your chances of being involved in a fatal accident over the next two years because of the unfixed problem are a bit worse than one in a million 2.8 in a million, to be more exact. Meanwhile, your chances of being killed in a car accident during the next two years just by virtue of being an American are one in 5,244.
So go out today and buy a Toyota. Its the patriotic thing to do.
