According to news agency Reuters, Japanese carmakers (and noted assembly-line perfectionists) Honda and Toyota were forced to recall thousands of their U.S. models due to varied and potentially hazardous flaws.

Honda recalled the trusty Accord (is anything safe in this world, if not the Accord?). 81,000 of the popular mid-size sedans (M.Y. 2004-2005) must be returned to the dealer to fix faulty wiring that would fully deploy the driverside airbag regardless of seat position thereby injuring smaller drivers.

Toyota is recalling more than a half a million (M.Y. 2004-2007) full-size Tundra trucks and Sequoia SUVs to replace faulty ball-joint assemblies that could potentially make it harder to steer the ecosystem and tree, respectively.

The folks in Detroit should keep their schadenfreude as muted as possible.

Honda info.

Toyota info.