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What does it tell you? driving speed, acceleration, it tells you turns. it tells you -- it can even possibly if someone was drunk behind the wheel of a car. >> gretchen: are you saying that i could get a speeding ticket like, say, yesterday if i happen to be going a little bit over the limit if they got access to my black box? they could later then charge me with a crime? >> clayton: thats the concern. the privacy concern. so there are advocates trying to push this thing private. these black box...

Hundreds of claims of sudden acceleration on generation 6 camry which she was driving, dating back nearly a decade. heres the womans son. >> asked strange questions about my moms car. they ultimately told me that, im sorry, your mom has been involved in a serious car accident. she didnt make it. looked like toyota knew there was something wrong with it. they just didnt say anything. >> install a break override system so that we dont have a repeat of these types of incidents. >> so you hear the a...

Trigger mudslides around the burn areas. the mountain fire has consumed more than 27,000 acres. at this point its 68% contained. the first trial involving the sudden acceleration of toyotas gets under way this morning in california according to the associated press. a jury will decide if the automaker is liable for the death of a 66-year-old bookkeeper killed when her 2006 camry accelerated to 100 miles an hour before hitting a telephone pole and a tree. the outcome could determine whether toy...

-- 69 years of age. >> in california there is a lawsuit. vehicles made by toyota, taking on a mind of their own and speeding out of control. it is the first of the 80 lawsuits foiled against the law maker. a california woman was killed on impact after her 2006 camri accelated to 106 miles per hour. >> this is a bell weather for the other 80. it will determine if toyota is liable for the sudden unintended acceleration. toyota said it is not the gas pedal. if they lose it, it can only the flood ga...

Help. she indicated that there were more victims but so far none of them have turned up. you may remember those stories of terrified drivers behind the wheel of their toyotas when the cars suddenly sped up. jury selection begins today in los angeles in the first wrongful death lawsuit against the automaker. with more, here is abcs lindsey janice. linzie janis. >> reporter: according to the family of 66-year-old noriko uno, she was driving home in her toyota camry when it unexpectedly accelerat...

Whatsoever. >> fascinating point. it happened right at the beginning of the bridge where its a 40-foot drop. had she gone a little further up, she could have been 140 feet up. >> lucky for her in more ways than one. >> you bet. jury selection begins in the first wrongful death suit against toyota over cars with sudden acceleration. it involves a 66-year-old california woman who died after she lost control of her speeding camry. toyota claims the car was not defective. the outcome of the trial ...

The enraged driver plows his car into the crowd of cyclists. a fellow rider captures the heart-stopping moment on camera. elton is among several cyclists hit. >> translator: and before i was able to look back again, the car collided with the back of my bicycle at the beginning of its acceleration, so it didnt hit me with all of its force. but the bike and i were thrown into the air, and i fell to the ground. i was left terrified from what happened, from seeing people lying on the ground. the sou...

Increasingly frustrated with the afghan president hamid karzai and could withdraw all-american troops by next summer. this is a major reversal of the current plan that would keep a small number of troops there. ambassador john bolton joins us. would this acceleration, the zero option of no troops after next year, would that be dangerous? >> i think its certainly hastens the day when taliban and al qaeda retake control of afghanistan. i think that day is coming almost inevitably given the preside...

From the embassy suites and as i do, i see the asiana flight coming in. it looked like a normal orientation for a 777, there was no wobbling, it just seemed to be coming in at a little bit of a higher angle the closer that it approached the runway. the engines were at a relatively stable pace the entire time. there was no acceleration or slowing down. but as the aircraft approach today run way, i could tell that it was going to come down on the runway at a earlier point of the r runway than most...

From the embassy suites and as i do, i see the asiana flight coming in. it looked like a normal orientation for a 777, there was no wobbling, it just seemed to be coming in at a little bit of a higher angle the closer that it approached the runway. the engines were at a relatively stable pace the entire time. there was no acceleration or slowing down. but as the aircraft approach today run way, i could tell that it was going to come down on the runway at a earlier point of the r runway than most...