Internal emails from Toyota executives were revealed acknowledging the sudden acceleration issue and urging the company that it was time to come clean. Company executives even went as far to say “we are not protecting our customers by keeping this quiet,” and “the time has come to not hide on this one.” The email appeared to be a response to one earlier in the day from Katsuhiko Konagei, a communications coordinator.  In Konagei’s email he stated that Toyota should not mention the mechanical failures of the accelerator pedals because the company had not clarified the cause of the problem or settled on a remedy.
The e-mail message was among 70,000 pages of documents requested from the company by the Transportation Department and Congressional committees, which are investigating Toyota’s recalls.  Read the NYT article here

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