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2010, youll recall the sudden acceleration issue that drew a lot of attention just a few years ago, and there were, unfortunately, some people who died in car accidents. now, the government actually studied this because it was believed to be a problem with toyotas electronic acceleration system in the automobiles, but they never found any link between the sudden acceleration and toyotas electronic system. a subsequent review, by the way, of that study found that the government wasnt up to speed ...

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Runaway toyotas first emerged a year and a half ago. >> were in trouble. theres no brake. >> reporter: after four people died after a california driver could not stop his lexus with the passenger calling 911 for help. >> were approaching the intersection. were approaching intersection. hold on. >> reporter: what followed was a wave of reports of runaway toyotas. the speculation about the electronic acceleration system as a cause. transportation secretary raymond lahood said flatly, that was not ...

Adam, what can nasa do about this? >> some people might say this is not rocket science but perhaps it might be rocket science. nasa actually has the expertise to look at all kinds of electronic components in the acceleration system, and thats what nasa is going to do, but its not just nasa, martha. theyre also enlisting the national academy of sciences and both of these studies are going to be separate but theyre going to be the same kind of study focusing on whether solar flares or other possib...

To be found. >> what we see is a section here to record brake and acceleration. and theres nothing. they have -- for whatever reason theyve decided not to program their boxes to record this information. >> reporter: are you suggesting that perhaps toyota does not want its cars to record whats going on with the braking and acceleration system? >> we know that they are not programming it to collect. thats what we know. and it makes us very suspicious. >> reporter: there is no law yet specifying wh...

Development and not reliable for accident reconstruction. >> i think it is. if it provides any kind of data to me about whats going on with the vehicle, it can be used as a reconstruction tool, without a doubt. >> reporter: lawyers for the hardy family thought so, too, but toyota requires individuals to get a court order, instead police and federal regulators stepped in, compelling toyota to download and decipher the data which only its own engineers are trained to do. the data the hardies were ...

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