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Acceleration sparking massive recalls, and ten months later a new government could provide potentially some crucial new insight on what exactly happened. doug mcel way is live from washington with this story. what can we expect from this studiesome is. >> reporter: one source tells me, jenna, there will be no smoking gun. after ten months of intensive study by some of the best engineering minds in the country, don't look for any breakthrough findings about some electronic gremlin in toyotas. toyota has steadfastly maintained there is no electronic problem, that all of those accidents, injuries...

Guy could you take the foot off the accelerator and that's how it wound up on -- up on the freeways of san diego. talk about a scary moment there. toyota recently recalling the prius, 2004-2009 were among the cars involved in the floor mat problem, that's when the accelerator had the potential to get trapped in the floor moot -- floor mat. toyota says if that happens the car would be difficult to stop. the prius, however, not among the cars recalled because of a gas pedal that sticks in the down position without interference from the floor mat. it's time to figure this out. you can hear that g...

>> now -- >> we've determined that those are not safe. >> all right. >> because of a floor mat problem, because of a sticky pedal, and -- >> it's the and that i'm wondering about. right there. in other words, you said you didn't consider those safe. >> let's do this because i promised you the exchange between representative burton and the transportation secretary, ray lahood, i want to get to that in just a moment, but we're interrupting the q & a going on right now between the transportation secretary and a maryland representative, elijah cummings. let's do that now. jen, we've got that queue...

Voice. she thought she was going to die. >> well, her problem was not a floor mat problem or a sticky pedal problem. her problem appears to have been an electronic malfunction of her ignition system, the fuel system and my question was why didn't toyota get that car? it wasn't damaged. and really thoroughly try to find out what caused that problem which to this day they apparently are still not trying to do. >> do you think we will see real solutions out of this hearing? we're going to hear from akio toyoda sometime today and his testimony. >> well, i don't think the american public is anti-ja...

Four accidents and two of them involving injuries, and no fatal tis fortunately. and you have to understand that this is only 37,000 cars out there, and you have already had problems with more than 100 of them. it is percentage wise a much higher incident of problems than in the gas pedal recall where you have millions of cars under recall, but only a couple of thousand have had problems. >> we have been advising people on what to do if they have the gas pedal problem with the floor mat problem or the gas pedal problem on its own, you try to get it into neutral and get to the side of the road ...