From: Mike Hunter on 3 Mar 2010 10:40 The Tribune Newspapers report the Senate slammed the NHTSA for not identifying the obviously serious safety problems leading to Toyotas massive 9,500,000 vehicle recall. NHTSA today up its number of fatalities involving sudden unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicle to 54 with 38 injuries in a total of 43 accidents. Senator Rockefeller said "NHTSA actions and inactions in the years leading up to today, are deeply troubling. The NHTSA would rather focus on floor mats than microchips because they didn't understand electronics." The Transportation Secretary said "I don't know if NHTSA turned a blind eye because it did not understand chips or the electronics. The agency has 125 engineers, including one software engineer and one electronics engineer. Perhaps the agency officials are too cozy with the industry it oversees." Senator Dorgan questioned whether several former NHTSA officials, who later went to work for Toyota, helped get many of these cases closed without recalls.
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