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Cars but as he departed yesterday he made it very clear toyota does not think so at this point. take a listen. >> i can say today, based on that what we know of our electronic systems, we have not seen failures in the electronics. it is best tested by expoanents, an interim report came out to congress today. there's a lot more testing still to go on and a lot -- in a lot of other different areas that will be made available to the public, the congress and ntsa when it's complete. >> reporter: yet, congress heard some testimony yesterday from experts who said they believe there are indications i...

Quandary if they announce that the electronics is a problem. they're going to probably be in a lot of trouble because nobody is going to want to drive the car. so i think at this stage they don't want to announcement that there's any electronics problem. >> in its statement to us, toyota spokesperson said, quote, it's very easily to look from outside in and say no, there is no problem with the pedal. but this is the problem, and we are fixing it. in fact, toyota says two days ago knitsa said it will take a fresh look into the ish you into the auto industry as a whole, not just related to toyot...

>> reporter: so any fix is not a fix. >> so they're in a little bit of a quandary. if they announce that the electronics is a problem, they're going to probably be in a lot of trouble because nobody is going to want to drive the car. so i think at this stage they don't want to announce there's any electronics problem. >> reporter: in its statement to us, a toyota spokesperson said, "it's very easy to look from outside in and say, no, there is no problem with the pedal, but this is the problem and we are fexing it." in fact, toyota says two days nhtsa says it will take a general look at the ele...

Issues very, very carefully. they try to limit the scope to certain models. they try to limit the scope to certain years. and when they do that, a lot of times the government just doesn't have the power or the resources to keep up y with everything and to find out everything they need to know. very often these types of issues come out of the class-action lawsuits where lawyers and engineers get together, discover material from the car companies, and from that material they really discover what the real problem is and eventually it will probably get fixed. >> right. you know, it's interesting t...

That toyota, at this point in time, does not know the problem. and, therefore, does not know how to fix it. >> i -- i think that -- i think that the evidence is pointing that way. i think the evidence is pointing that way, absolutely. >> reporter: so, any fix is not a fix? >> so, there they're in a little bit of a quandary, if they announce that the electronics is a problem, they're going to probably be in a lot of trouble, because nobody's going to want to drive the car. so, i think at this stage, they don't want to announce that there's any electronics problem. >> reporter: in its statement ...