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Plaintiffs suing Toyota are pooh-poohing a report by government engineers that found unintended acceleration incidents were not Toyota's fault.

Mechanical defects that have already been addressed were the only known cause of the acceleration problem, federal investigators found.

General Motors says it will install a new brake safety measure that can prevent unintended acceleration on all its new vehicles worldwide by 2012.

The second of two Prius "unintended acceleration" incidents examined this week by Toyota has come to the same conclusion as the earlier one: the data retrieved from the hybrid does not agree with the driver's account.

The U.S.

The Transportation Department is hearing from some Toyota owners who say they're still having trouble with unintended acceleration after their recalled cars were repaired.

Some Toyota owners say they're still having trouble with unintended acceleration after their recalled cars were repaired, and the Transportation Department said Wednesday it is looking into their complaints.

The system would be meant to prevent acceleration episodes like those that have led to the recall of millions of Toyotas, the Transportation secretary said on Tuesday.

An executive told a House committee Toyota’s recall might “not totally” solve the problem of unintended acceleration in its vehicles.

The president of Toyota's U.S. operations acknowledged to lawmakers that the company's recalls of millions of its cars may "not totally" solve the problem of sudden and dangerous acceleration.