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141 investigations into unintended acceleration and closed 112 of them without any action. i spoke to joan claybrook who is now professor emeritus of the safety watchdog, public citizen. >> they found an easy out in my view on this by just blaming the driver. but any driver who puts their foot on the accelerator by mistake will take their foot off the accelerator rather than jamming it on the floor and keeping it there till they have a crash. that's just not reasonable. >> we contacted nhtsa about this charge. a spokeswoman there issued a statement saying, quote, safety is our top priority and...

Airplanes. those are far more details in terms of the information stored there. you can almost re-create what's happening in the final seconds before a crash with an airliner. it's different with these black boxes in cars. they only record five seconds before an accident, two seconds afterwards and the data come from them very limited. in some cases it may not be able to tell you if there's an electronics problem or a surge that suddenly caused the car to lurch forward. people may be looking and saying, here, you'll get the answer. even those critical of toyota are saying don't hold out the ho...

Recall or shims put in under the second recall for sticking accelerator pedals, it raises the prospect that perhaps the problem behind unintended acceleration is a software or electronics problem. the national highway traffic safety administration is now looking at the so-called black boxes, which is the electronic data recorders, the control module recorders in these cars. the nitsa has received a reader that allows them to look at these black boxes, decipher what's coming out of them from toyota. the problem with that, however, tamron, is that those readers may not actually tell us if there'...

Executives and the nugget of news seems to be, and the testimony, that one executive will say yet again that they have looked at the electronics and they do not believe this problem of sudden unintended acceleration is a toyota electronics problem. they also will announce today that rodney slater, a former secretary of labor, under the bush administration, is going to be hired to do an internal review of toyota practices. bill: affecting a lot of people out there. brian, thanks, brian wilson is live on that story on the hill today in washington. martha: now we want to bring you the latest info...

I think that's why with the documents we've received we'll look at this to another hearing. >> brian: do you believe it's an electronics problem? >> i believe it's partially an electronics problem and the other thing i held up at the hearing was two different pedals, one made in japan and one made in the united states and they were in the same car, some kind of car, but they were made a little bit differently and the one in the u.s. had to have a shim put in it so that the electronics would work better because it would be more space. and the one in japan did not have to be adjusted like that. ...