{"id":4325,"date":"2010-03-11T12:07:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T16:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=4325"},"modified":"2010-03-17T10:18:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T14:18:14","slug":"engineers-and-the-circus-national-review-03-11-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/engineers-and-the-circus-national-review-03-11-10","title":{"rendered":"Engineers and the Circus (National Review, 03.11.10)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Detroit – Getting to the bottom of an engineering problem such as Toyota’s alleged “instant acceleration” issue is a painstaking process. It is a method that does not conform to camera-thirsty pols seeking to show they care, journalists seeking quick headlines, and tort lawyers seeking ammo for class-action suits.<\/p>\n

Frank Ahrens of the Washington Post reports on the embarrassment of ignorance at recent House hearings:<\/p>\n

It was made painfully clear at the hearings that a number of lawmakers do not understand the process. An exchange between Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and Toyota President Akio Toyoda illustrated the problem. . .<\/p>\n

Read full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Detroit – Getting to the bottom of an engineering problem such as Toyota’s alleged “instant acceleration” issue is a painstaking process. It is a method that does not conform to camera-thirsty pols seeking to show they care, journalists seeking quick headlines, and tort lawyers seeking ammo for class-action suits. Frank Ahrens of the Washington Post […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4326,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4325\/revisions\/4326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}