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CBS' Armen Keteyian went online for some Jackass style Internet video to illustrate his exclusive Investigation into the Yamaha Rhino, the "muscle car for the back country," an off-road, two-seater all terrain vehicle whose accidents have killed 59 people since it was put on sale in 2003. Check out a couple of videostreams of the Rhino tipping over, a couple of it somersaulting backwards while driving uphill. Some 15 months before the Rhino went on sale, Yamaha's president Keisuke Yoshida and his vice president Ichiro Miyachi were checking out a prototype. It rolled over and injured Miyachi's foot. Keteyian was turned down for an on-camera interview but Yamaha insisted that the Rhino is "safe, reliable and versatile" and that "virtually all accidents are caused by operator error." The Consumer Product Safety Commission may intervene.
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