My takeaway of the first of two hearings on Toyota’s unintended acceleration problem (the other will be at 11:00 today) is that Toyota has locked away the answers in Japan. By design. Recalls A key to understanding how this worked is how recalls were decided. In response to a question from John Dingell, Toyota US [...]

Jim Lentz is testifying before the House Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee as we speak. Waxman just played a statement saying Lentz made saying they were confident they had solved the unintended accleration problem. He then asked Lentz if he still stood by his statement. Lentz said yes, as he defines sudden unintended acceleration. But [...]