{"id":8057,"date":"2010-02-09T08:16:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T08:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/software-bug-causes-toyota-recall-of-almost-half-a-million-new-hybrid-cars-cars\/"},"modified":"2010-02-09T08:16:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T08:16:22","slug":"software-bug-causes-toyota-recall-of-almost-half-a-million-new-hybrid-cars-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/software-bug-causes-toyota-recall-of-almost-half-a-million-new-hybrid-cars-cars.php","title":{"rendered":"Software Bug Causes Toyota Recall of Almost Half a Million New Hybrid Cars [Cars]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/fcd43_340x_woz_and_prius.jpg\" class=\"left image340\" width=\"340\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">Toyota just announced a recall of its 2010 hybrid cars. Four hundred thousand worth. The reason? A change in \"brake feeling\" caused by faulty antilock braking software. There is no fix for cars on the road yet.<\/p><p>This problem, unrelated to the sticky gas pedal issue that other drivers complained about. But I'm still wondering what exactly is bothering our Prius-loving friend Woz, <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5462004\/steve-wozniak-explains-that-faulty-software-caused-his-car-troubles\">who claims he has a faulty cruise control issue that is software related, not mechanical<\/a>.<\/p><p>Remember that old joke about if cars were as crash prone as computers? Yeah, not funny in 2010. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/BUSINESS\/02\/09\/japan.prius.recall\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>]<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=41a9308f8f1e296e88665c714d2d876f&amp;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/fcd43_img.phdo?s=41a9308f8f1e296e88665c714d2d876f&amp;p=1\"><\/a><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/fcd43_eus.gif?eui=2226\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=wwNSEymdJLg:0oPdwQLgrjI:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/fcd43_full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=wwNSEymdJLg:0oPdwQLgrjI:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/32485_full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=wwNSEymdJLg:0oPdwQLgrjI:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/32485_full?i=wwNSEymdJLg:0oPdwQLgrjI:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=wwNSEymdJLg:0oPdwQLgrjI:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/32485_full?i=wwNSEymdJLg:0oPdwQLgrjI:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/32485_wwNSEymdJLg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota just announced a recall of its 2010 hybrid cars. Four hundred thousand worth. The reason? A change in \"brake feeling\" caused by faulty antilock braking software. There is no fix for cars on the road yet.This problem, unrelated to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/software-bug-causes-toyota-recall-of-almost-half-a-million-new-hybrid-cars-cars.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurist"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}