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February 24th, 2010
08:00 AM ET

Woman relives her runaway ride

Today, Toyota's CEO, who has come all the way from Tokyo, will answer questions on Capitol Hill. There have been accusations that the company has been arrogant and way too late with its response to reports of "runaway cars."

Yesterday, his chief of sales in the U.S. sat down and listened to a woman re-live her runaway ride in a Lexus. Her name is Rhonda Smith and she and her husband Eddie joined us on Wednesday's American Morning.

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  1. EDMOND W MARTIN

    Problems are deep and caused during the BUSH & REAGAN years of deregulation mania. For instance we pollute and kill more people because we stopped automotive safety inspections across the USA. The NHTSA must renew auto safety inspections and the EPA exhausts regulations and articles that are mandatory for safety and exhausts to stop that what kills more than the TOYOTAs do.
    Local enforcers do not enforce safety, rather they go against NHTSA's own regulations that somewhat faster auto travelers while operating safely get tickets in contradiction to the regs. Yes TOYOTA has a major problem , but it started with de-regulations across the USA. NHTSA BRING BACK SAFETY INSPECTIONS PLEASE so we can at least know somethings work.

    February 24, 2010 at 11:27 am |