We’ve heard Steve Woz talk about the acceleration issue with his Prius. The entire time software and electronics were blamed for the issues, but now Toyota President Akio Toyoda is telling “the House oversight committee that he is ‘absolutely confident’ that the electronics of Toyota’s gas pedal systems are not the source of problems with a number of Toyota vehicles speeding out of control.”
Talk about terrible timing. Toyota has announced a recall for all current generation Prius vehicles in Australia just as they’re trying to launch the new Hybrid Camry. Bugger.
Toyota just announced a massive recall of its 2010 hybrid cars. The reason was a change in brake feeling caused by faulty antilock braking system software. There is no fix for cars on the road yet.
The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued recalls on Acer’s AS3410, AS3410T, AS3810T, AS3810TG, AS3810TZ, and AS3810TZG laptops, all 13.3-inch models, due to bad internal wiring of the microphone.
Your TV is trying to kill your children. Your DVD player is trying to kill your children. Your robot lawnmower is trying to kill your children. And now, your blinds – your soft roman blinds! – are trying to kill your children.
Canon has issued a partial recall for its top-line 1D and 1Ds Mk III cameras. Apparently, Canon slopped a little too much oil into the cameras’ mirror boxes, which can result in photo-ruining lubricant splatters on their low-pass filters. SEND’EM BACK. [Canon via Gadget Lab]
About 215 of Acer’s ASG7200 and ASG7700 units were just recalled by the consumer product safety commission because their internal wiring could get “bent or stripped”, causing them to overheat and create a “burn hazard.”
Yep, AT&T is pulling its Quickfire Sidekick-wannabe off the shelves. That’s because if you shove the charger in the wrong way, as some people have done, it, well, the punchline pretty much writes itself.
