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Originally Posted by ericmvest
Being a Japanese apologist is not thinking objectively. A foreign company or government setting up "research" (intelligence gathering) offices in America to gather our technology is not virtuous.
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Japanese secret agents posing as automotive engineers?
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Originally Posted by ericmvest
The Japanese stole General Motors catalytic converter technology. A Federal bureaucrat showed the Japanese a General Motors prototype catalytic converter that General Motors loaned the Federal Government allowing the Japanese to take notes, drawings, photographs, etc. The Japanese subsequently produced a copy. A Federal judge did not give General Motors damages because General Motors patented a later version of their catalytic converter and not the prototype the Japanese copied.
Toyota copied TRW’s concept for hybrid vehicles when they developed the Prius. They allowed TRW’s patents to expire before they introduced the Prius therefore there was no patent infringement.
Other than the Toyota Production System, what manufacturing or product innovation has Toyota contributed to the automotive industry?
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If GM has any sense, you can bet they've ripped apart Camrys, Accords and Altimas before. They don't think everything up themselves either.