Prius Problem News Today

Hes not a story. >> i totally agree but it is pretty bizarre. gentlemen, thanks for joining us. congressman dennis kucinich says he does not care if he is the spoil weather it comes to passing health care reform. is he a man of principle and i respect that. but im going to try to do my best here tonight to try to change his mind. thats coming up in a moment. plus, toyotas now got a prius problem. a car that was recalled an got fixed got stuck going 94 miles an hour. ill tell you how that sto...

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Because of problems with the brakes. one georgia man who drives a recalled model says hes lucky to be alive after the braking problem caused him to fall 150 feet into a ravine. he only had a broken arm. toyotas president bowing during his first apology last week. >> wheres your protractor? >> yesterday, he took a deeper bow after apologizing for the prius problem. >> he could pull a hamstring. >> he need a bow analyst to figure out the difference. fox news alert for you now, while you were sleep...

Are going to hood toyotas feet to the fire on recall information. they also revealed today that the recall is going to cost them roughly $2 billion. shep? >> shepard: how long did toyota know about this prius problem before telling consumers? >> well, thats an important question. fox business has learned through our correspondent jeff flock that toyota knew it had prius brake problems going all the way back to 2006. toyota has confirmed that. so, there is now a formal investigation announced tod...

Being recalled in japan. they are now looking at lexus, at the lexus hybrid. also over brake problems. with me now, the car coach, lauren fix. shes also author of "lauren fixs guide to loving your car." lauren, again, these are initial reports coming out of japan. what do you make of what were hearing? >> i think that this is very interesting. i think initially that they sat on their hands when it came to acceleration problems and now theyre listening to every single consumer complaint and i thi...

>> shepard: 20 inches of snow on the way for the capital. james, thank you. couple important stories from the auto industry. toyota is deciding whether to recall the top-selling prius hybrids because of braking problems. remember accelerator problems recently forced toyota to recall millions of other vehicles and now the company has this new prius problem. toyota reports the issue comes when people drive over bumpy or slippery surfaces and the vehicle pauses as it switches from regular braking s...

To slow the vehicle, an generates electricity, which is fed back to the battery. press harder and the hydraulic brakes the wheels take over like a normal car. its this transition between the two thats the problem here, software controls that is correct theres also an antilock braking system involved, and in some situations, its apparently getting confused. bill: let me understand this now. when i hit the accelerator, the brake comes on or im hitting the brake and the accelerator comes on or im h...

Take out the drivers side floor mat to prevent gas pedal jamming. in october toyota recalled about 3.8 million vehicles because of the floor mat issue and even expanded that about a month later. then in january, recalling 2.3 million other vehicles because of a different problem causing accelerators to stick and stopped production of eight different models here in the u.s. now, yesterday came reports of brake problems with the popular prius. were going to try and make sense of all this this morn...

>> thats right, bill. toyota was down about 6 percent in trading, its hitting a 10-month low, around $73, the company out saying the recall could cost it $2 billion, and that could sink it into the red. as i noted, its at a 10-month low. basically what were seeing with toyotas stock, its seeing about $30 billion in market share wiped out due to the recall. the u.s. congress is saying there are 19 crash deaths that may be linked to the accelerator problems, and now the prius problem is also putti...

You very much. bill: and company. martha: okay. he wants to see the dancing girls. bill: ill stay tuned for that. theyre coming. new developments for those that drive a toyota, its been a bumpy 24 hours for that carmaker now facing problems with its popular prius. were now hearing about design problems with the hybrids antilock brake system and toyota says it corrected the problem for prius models sold since late january but the company still trying to figure out how to inform prius owners. me...