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 cars. as i said earlier, the electronic throttle control s failure is one, and the other one is the way in which the car is driven and structural of the vehicle, for example, the relation or the location of the axle, pedal, axle and the brake
owners saying the fix for a sticky gas pedal is no fix, and telling the feds, more than a dozen, the vehicles are speeding up without control after repairs were completed and eric sean is checking in on this, live in our newsroom, what is the issue. eric: it is supposed to be the big fix and may not have worked in all cases. dealing with the sudden acceleration problem of some toyota models. now, the mags national highway traffic safety administration says it is investigating at test ten allegation from ten toyota owners their cars still accelerate even after they ve had their cars fixed, from the recall, at a toyota dealership and the problem has to do with sticking gas pedals and this fix involves a half-hour repair and they put a metal insert, behind the gas pedal, also, they reprogrammed some of the computers, to try and put a kill switch in there to kill sudden acceleration if the car is going out of control and one toyota driver who has not complained to the feds yet is a former
determined floor mats were causing the sudden acceleration problem. in a freedom of information act request they got few answers. nhtsa responded by saying they don t know how they did the rest. they don t know what they measured and have no test data. in other words, they had nothing other than a conclusion. reporter: the next question is why. claybrook says nhtsa has been considered understaffed and underfunded and the house committee reports says they appear underqualified to investigate safety on cars that had electronics rivaling the cockpit of the fighter jet. but the agency and toyota have also been attacked for being too cozy with each other. for example, two toyota officials who handled safety issues involving nhtsa used to work for them. the company has been defending them. what haven t they done is within the very good ethical sort of
350 people killed alone in the coastal town of constitution. some of the deaths apparently caused at waves from a tsunami swept through the area. the country s president saying the entire death toll from the magnitude 8.8e magglio quake stands at 708 and that number expected to go higher. secretary of state hillary clinton will arrive in santiago chile testimony. the week long tour expected to be dominated by the tour in chile and she is scheduled to make stops in guatamela, uruguay and costa rica. why should we believe that things going to get better? you weren t aware of the fact that there was a serious acceleration problem with your vehicles until just a few
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 cars. as i said earlier, the electronic throttle control s failure is one, and the other one is the way in which the car is driven, and structural of the vehicle, for example, the relation or the location of the axle, pedal, axle and the brake pedal or there may have been the problems with the parts and components, so i would say roughly those four categories. the etc, electronic throttle control, as far as our