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Conclude in many of those cases driver error was to blame. mike ramsey is one of the "wall street journal" reporters who broke this story. he joins us from southfield, michigan. mike, why don't you just summarize what exactly your report is saying. because you are not saying all of them, you're just talking about these ones that are not attributed to stuck gas pedals or floor mats stuck to the accelerator. right? >> right. the important thing here is that a couple weeks ago, the department of transportation said that they continue to have no evidence that electronic throttle control is to blam...

Speculation there was a computer glitch causing the sudden acceleration, a lot of experts weighed in on that, that barring any other information coming out of toyota, it has to be such. why, i'm asking you, did toyota wait to release this data or allow nhtsa to look at the data that would have exonerated them, perhaps, a long time ago? >> well, i think it is important here that toyota has all along claimed that they -- that their evidence shows that there is no evidence of electronic throttle control being an issue. they have been very steadfast on that and said they'll fight all the lawsuits ...

The brake. there is not a single instance confirmed of electronic failed control. >> a couple of weeks ago, the department of transportation says they continue to have no evidence that electronic throttle control is to blame. what they didn't say in their testing, downloads from crashed toyota vehicles, that measures what was going on in the vehicle at the time of the crash, that in cases where people had claimed that they were standing on the brake, that there was no way they could stop the car even though they were standing on the brake, the crash data recorder basically said that, in fact, ...

The electronic controls, not the floor mats. >> is it your feeling that toyota has known about this problem for a long time and is only now addressing this issue, rather late in the game? >> as soon as toyota introduced the electronic throttle control in the 2002 model year, complaints shot up fourfold, insurance claims shot up on the vehicles and so the one common theme is electronic throttle controls and sudden acceleration go hand in hand. >> is it your feeling that people with any of these vehicles should stay off the road or do you feel like it's an anomaly, that there may be a problem he...

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...