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Government has done a ten-month investigation into those unintended accelerations in toyota vehicles. a variety of toyota models and found that there's no electronic cause for those unintended accelerations. that in fact, all of the evidence according to the scientists at both nasa and the national highway traffic safety administration suggest it was either the sticking accelerator pedal or the floor mat that was holding down these pedals that were responsible for virtually every single one of these unintended ak sell races. at least as far as the government can determine through all of the re...

Electronics but it's never been shown and i don't know that it's ever going to be shown that that was a reason for it. >> yeah. i mean, you're right. they were not able to prove it. but at the same time, we recalled 9 million cars. was that a hasty decision? >> no. the cars were recalled for reasons that were sound. there really was an issue. a state trooper in california's family was killed because their car's gas pedal got stuck in a floor mat that wasn't designed for that car. initially toyota's response was reasonably to say don't put these extra thick floor mats in the cars but took the e...

These cars. what's going on? >> well, they did find in one case pedal entrapment where a pedal got caught mainly by a floor mat. that's they had a recall for. what they found in a lot of other cases is either the drivers didn't put the brakes on or put them on only partway. driver error has always been a major cause of unintended acceleration incidents. it's genuinely unintended but there are cases where the driver puts their foot on the gas thinking they're hitting the brake and the car begins to accelerate quickly and panic and thinking they're stepping on the brake they press down on the ac...

San diego, as everyone remembers in august of last year, that involved a highway patrolman where the floor mat was depressed and the highway patrolman was killed in a terrible accident. that kind of led to some investigation of other potential problems with these toyota vehicles and it came about that toyota had maybe known about this sticky accelerator pedal and hadn't done a recall in a timely manner. they ended up getting fined for that. meanwhile, there's a whole other set of people saying, neither of these problems are actually the issue. you know, that really is the deal here, is that so...

Family whenever we went to new york, the boys, to sean. he was just -- he -- i tell you, there's two sides to him. he could fire someone in a second. we prevented him from firing someone. there was a security guard, wouldn't letmy two boys on the field. of course, they didn't have passes -- >> larry, thank you. >> larry: he went up -- >> we're out of time. larry's back tomorrow. time for anderson cooper and "ac 360." we're live in port-au-prince keeping them honest. thousands of people are spending yet another night in darkness in plastic tarp-covered shelters. more permanent, but very much li...