And parents who talk on cell phones, send texts or eat and drink while driving have teenagers who are more likely to do the same, according to preliminary findings of a new safety study by Toyota Motor and the University of Michigan.

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But, ironically, the Japanese automaker would never consider outsourcing a quality-sensitive operation like a body shop or paint shop, says Jeffrey Liker, a University of Michigan engineering professor and author of The Toyota Way.

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However, when twenty-three-year-old Sydney Provence, a University of Iowa physics grad student, picked me up in her Toyota Corolla at the airport in Cedar Rapids the first stop on my surfing odyssey I immediately confessed my misdeed.

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