toyota using shareholders money to make deal and get people in the showroom because of the hit from the so-called acceleration problem. general motors is using taxpayer money. with have a bankruptcy code to deal with company like g.m. that overincentivized in the past and got themselveses in the mess. they should reorganize. every airline except for american airlines has gone through it. why shouldn t g.m.? eric: i have two guys that disagree with you and agree with each other. this is taxpayer money, american workers. so what? we re going to end up owning general motors and then tell them don t go out there and sell? everyone is out there. honda dealer in texas had a sign what sid, our accelerators don t stick. everyone trying to take advantage of this. hold on. go ahead. it s different when the state takes money from citizens and gives it to preferred providers in the marketplace, where you have other people in the marketplace like toyota and honda that are using their own
but the director defending the agency. he says previous toyota complaints did not stand out compared to other automakers. he says the agency investigated complaints about the camry during the bush administration but did not find the defect since. since last fall toyota has recalled millions of cars to fix sticky accelerators. they have been linked to more than 50 deaths. toyota s problems on the highway may lead to the courthouse and a flood of lawsuits. i want to get right to the class action suits here. 89 class action suits in place now. not over the safety problems but over resale values. maybe you can explain that to us. well, it s really a little bit of both, tony. i ve read several of the complaints. and what they really are accusing toyota of is concealing the information, concealing the information about the sudden acceleration problem because they wanted to minimize the effects on future sales and leases and to minimize the recalls effects on their
car to spin out. putting the car into neutral, you ll be fine. we were confused here, he is pressing an ignition switch. is that what the prius has, it s not a turnkey function? well, that particular year should ab push button. you just hold the button for five seconds or longer and the engine will shut off. if you listen further into the 911 call because i did listen to it many times myself, he said he was afraid of shutting the car off because of someone behind him hittingle and that s why you want to use your 4-cases 4-ways, emergency flashers, to let people know you re having a problem, if you have a brake problem, acceleration problem, any problem, even if it s overheating, put on the 4-ways and let people know what s going on. bill: based on what you know about how this was handled, what could he have done or should he have done differently? put the car into neutral immediately. that s the first thing you should do when you have a problem. back into the 50s, that was alw
netanyahu. we shall see. moving on, it s deja vu all over again for toyota. another day and yet another acceleration problem in a prius. this time in harrison, new york. a 56-year-old driver lost control of her 2005 hybrid model for 100 feet before slamming into a stone wall. the woman was hospitalized with nonlife-threatening injuries. harrison police say they ve ruled out the floor mat as the cause. it was tied to the seat frame. and officials now have released the 911 tape containing the exchange between a dispatcher and that california driver from the other day who hit high speeds when his accelerate became stuck. take a listen. what s going on? is your accelerator stuck? no, i tried to yes? yeah, yeah. i tried to pull it back, pulled back. i push on the brakes and the car shuddered. okay. how fast are you going? 80 something.
translator: well, i believe that the vehicles are made by the roadways in each locale. the conditions of the roadways are changing, and we have to pay attention to that constantly, so it is not that i am to say here that, yes, we will put the warning sign here and there, rather, we really have to become much more attentive in listening to the voices from the customers, and we want to provide something more convenient, easier to use, much better and higher technical capability, and we would like to strive for that. larry: have you come up, mr. toyoda, with a solution to the acceleration problem? do we definitively know why those cars accelerated? translator: well, they are four sort of categories of the