New York Times News Service
Leading Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee said Monday that Toyota had dismissed the notion that computer issues could be at fault for sticking accelerator pedals on millions of cars, relied on a flawed study to draw that conclusion and then made misleading statements on the repairs it said would fix the problem.
The comments, from Representatives Henry J. Waxman, the committee’s chairman, and Bart Stupak, a subcommittee chairman, came in an 11-page letter to James E. Lentz III, the president of Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A.
The letter was released on the eve of the committee’s hearing into the Toyota recalls, one of three hearings scheduled to examine the situation.