On January 26 Toyota announced they will stop selling, as well as producing eight of their current models, due to a recall on these cars. The recall was for a sticking accelerator pedal, and Toyota believes its essential to take them off the market until the problem is solved. This has become such a dramatic action due to the fact that two of the cars recalled were best sellers in the country. These two cars were the Camry and Corolla. Along with the Camry and Corolla, the other cars that were recalled were the RAV4, Matrix, Avalon, Highlander, Tundra, and Sequoia. Although not much attention from the media has been brought upon this situation, it has indeed affected Toyotas company.
Although Toyota has put in tremendous amounts of their labor in order to produce these cars, Locke would agree that they have gone against the natural law. It isn’t just about utilizing a product and adding your labor to it, but rather putting it to good use and not wasting it. Instead of the company taking their time to make the product and check it thoroughly, they must have rushed through the process and in the end the cars had a fault on them. Instead of Toyota having quality set in their minds while making the cars, they were thinking profit instead. The more cars they produced in a shorter amount of time they would sell and profit more off of since two of the cars were the top selling cars in the country. If Toyota had taken the extra time to do extra tests or examine the cars a few more times they could have prevented this recall all along.
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I think that Toyota only cares about gas efficiency and long life dependability on their cars, which they have promoted over time. They don’t seem to be concerned with safety as much as the other two above. Toyota has not put their product to a good use, just because their product is not safe for consumers and this recall proves that. I do not agree with what Toyota is doing regardless of the great revenue they generate. What Toyota does goes against Locke theory which is that we have to distribute our product efficiently. Locke would also say that they are wasting the product as we have seen, therefore I agree with Natalie.
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