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Was the wrong size, meant for an suv, a vice president at the dealership says they do not mix and max the all weather mats. the company declined to talk to us pending their own investigation. even so, lawyers for the families believe the floor mat is only partially to blame. >> we know there was evidence of heavy application of braking, he's kind of finding the car is lurching like a bull and the brakes fail entirely and the throttle is wide open and it takes off like a rocket. >> reporter: a friend gave a eulogy describing saylor as a religious man of great faith and strong opinion fell in lo...

Per hour. >> deb is live with an a.m. original. deb, police say the problem was the floor mat, but the victim's family not convinced of that explanation. >> reporter: right, absolutely. when you think about it, it appears there was a lot going on in this car. this was a 911 call heard round the world and sent the car guy apt scrambling to recall millions of vehicles. we do warn you it is difficult to listen to. >> it lasted 17 seconds. >> august 28th, 2009, california highway patrol officer mark sailor was driving his 13-year-old daughter to a soccer match in san diego county. his wife a genet...

30 million vehicles that have been sold since 1960 and something we should note, between 2009 and 2010, that model year, those corollas have already been recalled for different things, including that problem with the floor mat and the sticky gas pedal issue, so we do not know specifically about which new corollas potentially would be involved in this issue. the issue at hand is this, that once the corolla reaches levels of more than 40 miles her power -- per hour, the steering starts to pull in one way or another, we hear there are maybe 100 complaints of that, so not a huge amount, but the co...

Stuck under the floor mat. >> correct. >> reporter: marvin, we'll we'll let you get back to work. they are working overtime to get all of them done. >> are you getting any of the prius cars in there with the braking issues? >> reporter: they are. it's a totally different recall but, again, something toyota is dealing with. this is the prius. this is how they fix the prius. it's very interesting. this is a laptop and they hook it up to the cord with the brake there. and this laptop assesses the problem. it takes about 45 minutes to update the software to fix the guy. mike ellie is here, the gen...

Reduces the amount of friction that's created internally inside of the pedals during multiple applications while driving. and prevents any type of sticking concern that the customer may have had. also there is a number of things that we also do here. there's another recall where we do we replace what is known as the tibia pad, okay? what it does is increases the clearance between the accelerator pedal and the floor mat to prevent any type of issue of, you know, the pedal actually hitting -- >> reporter: getting stuck. and then there's the also the shorter pedals, and ali, i want to show you th...