Toyota president Lentz updates feds on recall and safety progress
 

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Jim Lentz, President and Chief Operating Officer of <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/make/toyota/">Toyota</a> in North America has taken some time to update Congress on the company's progress as the company sallies forth through a <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/05/05/toyota-recalls-3-2m-down-4-6m-to-go/">mountain of recalls</a>. Lentz says that around 3.5 million fixes have been executed so far, including 1.67 million sticky accelerator pedals, 1.62 million floor mats and 118,000 anti-lock brake system program updates. Those figures mark 70 percent of all of the vehicles under the sticking-accelerator recall and Toyota says that it has been performing somewhere in the neighborhood of 120,000 fixes per week on average. <br />
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Lentz also says that his company has complied with mandates from the <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/05/12/report-nhtsa-launching-fresh-investigation-into-toyota-recall-d/">National Highway Traffic Safety Administration</a> by bringing a total of 150 Event Data Recorder readout machines to the States. Those are the handy little gizmos that allow researchers to pull and analyze the information gathered pre- and post-crash by Toyota vehicles. The greater number of EDR machines should allow Toyota to respond to any future issues more quickly than in the past.<br />
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According to a published statement, Toyota has reiterated that it all of its new cars and trucks are to be equipped with brake override systems - something that is expected to be mandatory for all automakers within a few short years. Hop the jump to read the transcript of Lentz's statement before Congress.<br />
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