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Culprit, interference with the car computer's system. from his home in england he has looked at the same u.s. government data. >> sudden accelerations can't be explained by drivers pressing their foot down on the accelerator to the pedal. can't 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 that's just not true. in a statement to cnn, the company says after many years of exhaustive testing by us and by other organizations, we have found no evidence ...

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 than 40 recent vehicle recalls including 141,000 honda fits in the united states being recalled to ...

Initially they could handle these problems. at first we thought it was a carpeting situation. they say, we can handle this. we'll take care of our custome s s like we always have. this is going back into the early 2000s. we're 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 they'd been in three, four accidents and the dealer wouldn't do anything. enough complaints causes a big red flag. ntsa, definitely, national highway traffic safety administration, ray lahood decided we're...

>> 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 need a system so that the sudden accelerations do not become deadly accidents. that's what the break o...

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 that's 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 that's what the brake override system does. >> reporter: a system that possibly could have saved the life of guadalupe alberto. >> once in a while, when i'm -- i come by this just to s...