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After it recalled more than 8 million cars because of accelerator problems and other issues. the automaker says it has repaired about 1 million of the vehicles so far. but a small portion of drivers, about 60 at last count, say they are still having pedal problems, even after the fix. toyota reports it has locked into some of those complaints and investigated them and cant find anything wrong with the throttle or with the repairs. u.s. lawmakers though want more. today the house committee thats ...

Will do a complete review of that. but what people should do is go on the website dot.gov and if they have one of the vehicles take the car to the dealer. >> what is taking so long to find out the cause of the sudden accelerations? >> we believe that the floor mat is part of the problem and the sticky pedal is part of the problem. toyota believes that, too, but we have had enough complaints about the electronics that we need to do a review of that, and look at the information that toyota has and...

Nexus here. were talking about a company where they grew too fast. >> right. >> outgrew their capacities. >> its very common in lots of companies. >> in the race to the top. >> when toyota was edging out gm as number one, this was a major strategic concern of theirs, when youre not number one, when youre almost there, everybody loves you. everybody thinks youre great and youre not there. when you are number one, you are target number one, and they knew this was a problem that two occur. i dont t...

Massive recall. company president akio toyoda was not alone on the hot seat. transportation secretary ray lahood testified for hours. he said that the toyota recall cars are not necessarily that safe right now, and they need to be inspected. you need the go back to the factory and go back to the dealers to make sure that they are safe. and he was forced to defend his departments own safety regulators. >> and joining us now, the secretary of transportation, ray lahood. mr. secretary, thanks very ...

Engineering, mechanical, software, hardware, and all of these elements that would be necessary to be able to come to a conclusion and as to what the nature of unattended accelerations would be? >> yes, sir, we do. and -- we take our responsibilities seriously. we have 125 engineers. we have electric allen gin ears. we are going get into the weeds in a thorough, comprehensive revie on the electronics. because that issue has been raised and we need do that. raised by people who drive toyotas, rais...

125 engineers, on the nhtsa side that dropped the ball and didnt do their jobs, when they were told, well more than six months ago, almost ten years ago, there was problems with unanyoneded acceleration and -- unintended acceleration and the secretary of transportations job is to protect consumers, and, of course they cannot protect everyone and there are unintended accelerations and people that do stupid things, on the roads, every day. we all see it. but what we do have a problem with is when ...

Our website dot.gov for recall to go back, those are not safe. >> phil lebeau covers the auto industry and joins me from capitol hill. as we wait for toyoda to testify. is it like there congressional hearings will lead to change in the way the governments side of this investigation is done? >> reporter: probably introduction of tighter rules in terms of those members that lead the organization and then go to work for one of the automakers. right now they are supposed to be a two-year ban in whic...

We never found a mag function that caused unin -- we never found a malfunction that caused accelerations. we conduct comprehensive independent analysis of our throttle system with an unlimited budget. their interim report confirms that it works as its designed. well make the results of this evaluation available to the public and congress as soon as its completed. so why did it take so long to get to this point? with respect to pedal entrapment. toyota conducted investigations of consumer complai...

Sudden acceleration issues. sean kaine joins us live from providence. thanks for being with us. >> good morning, thank you. >> first of all, your report says toyota first started to get the complaints about acceleration issues, unwanted accelerations back in 2002 when the 2002 camries hit the road. they even saw the unwanted acceleration issues during a first-hand testing of the sienna in 2003. why wasnt it until the past year that we started to see the recalls? >> you know, i think we have to l...

National highway transportation safety administration, nhtsa back in 2007, when it noticed an uptick in unexpected accelerations in toyota cars. one agency says nhtsa has to walk a fine line in such cases. >> nhtsa is trying to balance the need to do a thorough investigation and confirm that there is a real problem with having a lot of warnings flying out there that may or may not be well-grounded. >> toyota has certainly received a lot of bad publicity of late. by one count there have been more...