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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 can't find anything wrong with the throttle or with the repairs. u.s. lawmakers though want more. today the house committee that's been investigating toyota sent a letter to the company. they are asking for more data and more int...

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 look at the information that the professor at siu put together in carbondale, illinois, and he did ...

Nexus here. we're talking about a company where they grew too fast. >> right. >> outgrew their capacities. >> it's 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 you're not number one, when you're almost there, everybody loves you. everybody thinks you're great and you're not there. when you are number one, you are target number one, and they knew this was a problem that two occur. i don't think they knew it would be about brakes and accelerations and recalls, but it is part of a cu...

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 department's own safety regulators. >> and joining us now, the secretary of transportation, ray lahood. mr. secretary, thanks very much for joining us. first, we were told it was the floor mats and then the carpeting and then the ...

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, raised by members of congress who are going do it. >> the distance between washington and japan is well ...