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Old 02-20-2018, 02:03 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Right, yeah--that was a separate issue. I thought those had all been fixed by now.
Depends on the motivation of the owner. In my case, I ride motorcycles, so airbag shrapnel from side curtains is weighed against the odds of injury riding a machine with no restraint system. Also, my motorcycle awareness translates to my driving behavior as I look both ways before entering an intersection, regardless of right of way. I'm at a lower risk of using the side airbags than most.

Considering the fuse recall now, I might as well kill two stones with one bird.

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Toyota has the resources to conduct controlled, instrumented testing on a dyno that would put all this speculation to rest, and I expect if this goes to court we may see some results like that.
The reprogrammed behavior should be easy to measure by the layperson. I'm able to see the power output/input of both MGs and the engine using a cheap ELM237 device and the Torque app.

Observing the changed behavior should allow speculation to be made as to how that would impact fuel economy.

I doubt Toyota would be foolish enough to detrimentally impact MPGs without disclosing it to the public, but then again, dieselgate.
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