So what really should concern new Toyota owners is the question of whether the electronics are malfunctioning, resulting in uncontrolled engine acceleration. According to an ABC News follow-up story on television last evening, an engineering firm has been able to replicate such a problem under certain weather conditions (and demonstrated what happened to a reporter who was driving one of their vehicles) and the incident did not leave any "malfunction" note in the vehicle's computer database.

The engineering firm plans to present its testing results at the current Congressional hearings.

I'd find this report unsettling if I were driving a new Toyota. And my wife does!

Charley Noble