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Culprit, interference with the car computers system. from his home in england he has looked at the same u.s. government data. >> sudden accelerations cant be explained by drivers pressing their foot down on the accelerator to the pedal. cant be explained by loose floor mats nor by sticky pedals, because the schashgt stick of these things is the vehicles tend to take off by themselves with no input from the driver. >> toyota insists thats just not true. in a statement to cnn, the company says aft...

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...

Initially they could handle these problems. at first we thought it was a carpeting situation. they say, we can handle this. well take care of our custome s s like we always have. this is going back into the early 2000s. were talking about problems getting a little bit larger. i think now, so many complaints and 19 deaths because of unintended accelerations. i got e-mails from people saying theyd been in three, four accidents and the dealer wouldnt do anything. enough complaints causes a big red ...

>> i think the recalls cover less than half of the models and model years that need to be part of the recall. >> reporter: toyota says it bases recalls on defects that were identified and not reports of unintended acceleration. late wednesday there was a motion filed for a preliminary injunction demanding toyota recall the models affected and install an override break system to stop a car accelerating out of control. >> while everybody tries to figure this out, including toyota, i presume, we ne...

Unintended acceleration. late wednesday, mccune filed a motion for a preliminary injunction, demanding toyota recall all vehicle models allegedly affected and also install a brake override system that would stop a car thats accelerating out of control. >> while everybody tries to figure this out, including toyota, i presume, we need a system so that these sudden accelerations do not become deadly accidents, and thats what the brake override system does. >> reporter: a system that possibly could ...

Motion for a preliminary injunction, demanding toyota recall all vehicle models allegedly affected. and also install a brake override system that would stop a car thats accelerating out of control. >> while everybody tries to figure this out, including toyota, i presume, we need a system so that these sudden accelerations do not become deadly accidents, and thats what the brake override system does. >> reporter: a system that possibly could have saved the life of guadalupe alberto. >> once in a ...

Driving it, take it to the toyota dealer, because they believe they have the fix for it. >> reporter: but soon after his appearance before a house subcommittee, lahood put on the brakes saying he misspoke and instead told owners to drive immediately to a dealer. >> if you have one of these vehicles, if youre in doubt, take it to the dealership today. >> reporter: those toyota dealers are now frustrated. they have customers afraid to drive their cars. >> got people fearful. but in the end, i beli...

One of these vehicles, stop driving it, take it to the toyota dealer because they believe they have the fix for it. >> okay. so meanwhile u.s. officials are now looking into whether electronics are to blame for unexpected accelerations. toyota insists the problem is limited to floor mats and sticking pedals. dealerships are about to start installing reinforcing rods on millions of recalled vehicles and ill talk to an auto expert in just a little bit. hell tell us exactly what is going on, how ca...

>> president barack obama today in washington. senate democrats hes speaking in front of, much the same way as he spoke to those house republicans in baltimore last week. the president has been out and about and visible over the last couple of weeks trying to drum up his agenda, at least some support behind it. well talk to someone whos inside the room in just a minute, our senior congressional correspondent dana bash will join us. hello, im don lemon in for tony harris today. were going to begi...

>> basically its -- seems to be an occupational hazard of being successful in the auto business, which led to the bankruptcy of general motors and chrysler last year, which is what i describe in "crash course." toyota has had years of unrivalled success and have tried to get too big too fast over the past decade. they always had a process, never try to build a new product in a new factory with a new workforce, too many variables. they got way from that in their effort to overcome gm. for example...