from inside toyota. you really get a sense of what was going on, the conversations that were being had, but in january tota was scrambling to figure out the best way to deal with this major accelerator problem and in an e-mail obtained by the associated press, one of the top executives warned that the company needs to, quote, come clean about the sticking pedals and the executive saying toyota was not protecting customers by keeping quiet about this. in the e-mail by recently retired vice president irv miller, he said we have the tendency for sticking pedals and the time to hide on this one is over. what's more, toyota had failed to alert u.s. regulators even though the automaker was busy addressing sticky pedal problems in 31 european countries and canada. toyota's new chief quality officer for north america spoke about that disconnect, the ability to translate the information between continents last week at the inauguration of toyota's committee for global