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Car to spin out. putting the car into neutral, you'll be fine. >> we were confused here, he is pressing an ignition switch. is that what the prius has, it's not a turnkey function? >> well, that particular year should ab push button. you just hold the button for five seconds or longer and the engine will shut off. if you listen further into the 911 call because i did listen to it many times myself, he said he was afraid of shutting the car off because of someone behind him hittingle and that's why you want to use your 4-cases -- 4-ways, emergency flashers, to let people know you're having a pr...

Netanyahu. we shall see. moving on, it's deja vu all over again for toyota. another day and yet another acceleration problem in a prius. this time in harrison, new york. a 56-year-old driver lost control of her 2005 hybrid model for 100 feet before slamming into a stone wall. the woman was hospitalized with nonlife-threatening injuries. harrison police say they've ruled out the floor mat as the cause. it was tied to the seat frame. and officials now have released the 911 tape containing the exchange between a dispatcher and that california driver from the other day who hit high speeds when h...

>> translator: well, i believe that the vehicles are made by the roadways in each locale. the conditions of the roadways are changing, and we have to pay attention to that constantly, so it is not that i am to say here that, yes, we will put the warning sign here and there, rather, we really have to become much more attentive in listening to the voices from the customers, and we want to provide something more convenient, easier to use, much better and higher technical capability, and we would like to strive for that. >> larry: have you come up, mr. toyoda, with a solution to the acceleration p...

Warning sign here and there, rather, we really have to become much more attentive in listening to the voices from the customers, and we want to provide something more convenient, easier to use, much better and higher technical capability, and we would like to strive for that. >> larry: have you come up, mr. toyoda, with a solution to the acceleration problem? do we definitively know why those cars accelerated? >> translator: well, they are four sort of categories of the cars. as i said earlier, the electronic throttle control's failure is one, and the other one is the way in which the car is d...

Owners saying the fix for a sticky gas pedal is no fix, and telling the feds, more than a dozen, the vehicles are speeding up without control after repairs were completed and eric sean is checking in on this, live in our newsroom, what is the issue. eric: it is supposed to be the big fix and may not have worked in all cases. dealing with the sudden acceleration problem of some toyota models. now, the mags national highway traffic safety administration says it is investigating at test ten allegation from ten toyota owners their cars still accelerate even after they've had their cars fixed, from...