Yo-yo Ghosn goes in and out.
This time, the bail is set to only 500 Megayen, when before it was 900. Wonder, why
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Grumpy Gramps wrote:Yo-yo Ghosn goes in and out.
This time, the bail is set to only 500 Megayen, when before it was 900. Wonder, why
His defense team, on the other hand, was outraged by the arrest, in particular the prosecutors’ dawn raid in which they confiscated documents that Ghosn was preparing for his upcoming trial and his wife’s personal items including her cell phone and passport.
Rearresting an individual who has been released on bail is a highly unusual move, legal experts interviewed by The Japan Times said.
Grumpy Gramps wrote:OTOH it would put the government, which would get him out, in a shady light. Politics getting in the way of a judicial process is banana republic style.
Grumpy Gramps wrote:OTOOH if the USA could cold-bloodedly kill heads of states like Saddam Hussein or Gaddhafi, just because they thought that they were assholes; and they got away with it without any problem, then why shouldn't Japan be entitled to do the same? New world order and all that jazz.
NBC wrote:Millions of vehicles could face recall due to faulty seat belts using parts provided by Takata, the same Japanese supplier responsible for the recall of tens of millions of vehicles due to defective air bag inflators blamed for hundreds of injuries and dozens of deaths.
Joyson Safety Systems, the Chinese-owned automotive supplier that took over the remains of Takata after it went bankrupt in 2017, said it is pouring over 20 years of testing data for seat belt webbing and has found inaccuracies suggesting the numbers might have been altered intentionally.
Japanese regulators have begun their own probe and have reportedly advised automakers to prepare for recalls. If the safety of the belts cannot be verified, the impact could be substantial. Takata provided webbing for as much as 40 percent of Japanese auto production and 30 percent of the vehicles produced worldwide.
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wagyl wrote:At least the seatbelts are pretty easily retrofitted. As a person who has in the past enjoyed keeping elderly machinery on the road, it makes me weep to see things like the entire fleet of Toyota Starlets (not that they are particularly worthy cars to preserve) being scrapped because nobody is going to develop a replacement for therapidly decaying and unstable explosivesairbag devices in them. In some countries, they are doing this by refusing to renew registration of certain makes, models and years of production.
In truth, the mandatory explosives in modern cars means that none of them will have long lives. Who is going to trust an explosive device which has had years of intense heat and humidity in a car body, thirty years down the track? You won't be able to change the heater settings anyway because the touch screen will have failed 15 years ago.
matsuki wrote:Track vehicles usually have the airbags removed and a resistor (or something) put in place so the lack of airbags doesn't throw error codes on the vehicle's computer.
Grumpy Gramps wrote:matsuki wrote:Track vehicles usually have the airbags removed and a resistor (or something) put in place so the lack of airbags doesn't throw error codes on the vehicle's computer.
Would a regular shaken guy spot the difference? (asking for a friend, of course)
Grumpy Gramps wrote:matsuki wrote:Track vehicles usually have the airbags removed and a resistor (or something) put in place so the lack of airbags doesn't throw error codes on the vehicle's computer.
Would a regular shaken guy spot the difference? (asking for a friend, of course)
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