Toyota recall: The cascade continues

Another day, another piece of bad news for Toyota.

That trend continued again today, after the U.S. Transportation Department said it had opened an investigation into brake problems in the 2010 model year Toyota Prius, according to the Associated Press.

The news comes one day after the Japanese automaker admitted design problems with the brakes in its popular gas-electric hybrid model. On Tuesday, the Japanese government ordered an investigation of complaints of defective brakes on them.

Separately on Tuesday, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood urged American owners of recalled Toyotas to "stop driving" them and to take them to dealers for repairs.

In other Toyota news, the company announced a quarterly profit through last December of $1.7 billion — though that financial performance came before the recall of almost 8 million vehicles worldwide for accelerator pedel problems and other issues.

So how is one native Detroiter viewing all of this?

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