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Talking about transparency, the fact that the agency has been secretive in the past, and also about new safety standards, particularly for brake override, electronic brake override and new accelerator standard, and the existing standard is from 1963 and totally out of date. there will be a number of issues being discussed. >> do you think there will be pressure to force a recall of all toyotas, perhaps? >> there could be. the agency is doing a lot of investigating at this point. it seems that a ...

Is about. so as a result, its not as easy >> wow. thats a good one, guys. as saying, yeah, we see sudden thats a good one. slowly but surely, by the way, unintended acceleration and as a the ncaa dance card is filling result well make a recall here. there is a bit of a dance that up. last night, montana, the goes on between nhtsa and grizzlies pulled off a stunning automakers. as a result, thats going to be the focus of questioning today. upset. im doing the flip with the >> toyota probably -- t...

Game in an open season going after toyota but especially in some of these latest videos and 911 calls we can go back and for forth as to the legitimacy but if proven true, the national highway folks, transportation folks, should have been on and promised if they were on after the revelations came to light. >> youre right about that. theyve been getting complaint after complaint about the sudden acceleration for years. not just about toyota, but about other cars as well. and a lot of these basica...

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And we have the second report in two days of unintended acceleration for the toyota flagship hybrid. this woman said that her prius sped up on its own and crashed into a stone wall. thankfully, she is okay. but according to the police, the floor mats are not a factor and the car had been serviced by toyota. that incident coming on the heels of a san diegos man runaway ride. we told you about jim sikes story and now hear it first person with his call to 911 while his car was speeding. hello, th...

The electronic controls, not the floor mats. >> is it your feeling that toyota has known about this problem for a long time and is only now addressing this issue, rather late in the game? >> as soon as toyota introduced the electronic throttle control in the 2002 model year, complaints shot up fourfold, insurance claims shot up on the vehicles and so the one common theme is electronic throttle controls and sudden acceleration go hand in hand. >> is it your feeling that people with any of these v...

The sudden acceleration, you want to brake hard and put the car into neutral. as someone pointed out, turning the car off, which is an instinct that some people might have, can actually cause more problems because you could lose power steering which would make it very hard to navigate in traffic. >> god, this stuff is so important to know, and you hope that these experiences are going to end soon and toyota is going to be able to figure this problem out. ben sherwood joining us tonight. again, t...

Reports, e-mails. >> reporter: the documents now the focus of hearings on capitol hill include e-mails and memos that biller sent to toyota officials concerning so-called books of knowledge. highly secretive data and testing records generated by toyota engineers on everything from rollovers and roof safety to sudden unintended acceleration. ares that you have seen a smoking gun or worse potentially? ed towns says that the toyota documents shows a systemic disregard for the law. >> the material, ...

Driving it. what i meant to say, what i thought i said was, if you own one of these cars, or if youre in doubt, take it to the dealer and theyre going to fix it, okay? that good enough for everybody? >> all right, lets see if we can -- a bit snarky, lets see if we can get some clarity here. lets systematically what we need to do if we find ourselves in one of these sudden acceleration situations. you tell us the first thing to do and then explain it, would you please, is to practice deliberate c...

Sudden acceleration of a prius makes news in california. hoffman is rid of his. >> we werent going to drive it again, but we didnt want other people to drive it again. >> reporter: he donated the car to the engineering school of illinois northwestern university. he is hoping that somebody there can solve the mystery. >> the car was great, but the last few seconds were really bad. >> reporter: kare 11 news, rochester. as these harrowing accounts of runaway toyotas come in, we want you to surviv...