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Toyota and the driver's attorney plan several conferences this afternoon. here's susan candiotti. >> reporter: a draft memo seems to take steam out of jik sike' wild ride in his 2008 prius. it even had 911 and the california highway patrol running to his rescue. >> the gas pedal felt weird. it went all the way to fast. >> reporter: sikes relived it for our ted rowlands. >> i kept hitting the brakes, kept hitting the brakes. it wasn't slowing down at all. it was just accelerating. >> reporter: yet after two hours of trying to duplicate what happened on sikes' own car and another exact model, fe...

>> reporter: sikes relived it for our ted rowlands. >> i was in the 80s somewhere and i kept hitting the brakes, kept hitting the brakes, and it wasn't slowing down at all. it was just accelerating. >> reporter: yet after two hours of trying to duplicate what happened on sikes own car and another exact model, federal investigators and toyota came up short. a draft memo says every time the technician placed the gas pedal to the floor and the brake pedal to the floor, the engine shut off and the car immediately started to slow down. experts say that's a key safety feature of the car. so if sikes...

Control. they have examined the car and can't recreate the problem. >> james sikes insists that his prius hit speeds of 90 miles an hour while he was standing on brakes. susan candiotti has the latest on these new developments. >> john and christine, good morning. this draft memo makes it sound like an incident involving a runaway 2008 prius might not have happened the way the driver said it did. so who's right? a draft congressional memo seems to take some steam out of jim sikes' wild ride into his prius, even had 911 and california highway patrol running to his rescue. >> the gas pedal felt ...

Pass a car when the pedal in his words felt weird and wouldn't let up. our own ted rowlands talked to him about it last week. >> you didn't try to put it into neutral? >> no, i was afraid. i was hold on to the steering wheel both hands, 94 miles per hour in a toyota prius is fast. >> eventually the car did slow down after he kept hitting both brakes. the foot brake and emergency brake. >> so, susan, what does the memo say about how investigators tried to recreate the problem he described? >> yeah. apparently they just couldn't do it. this draft memo we're talking about says nhtsa and toyota te...

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