Whilst roaming around on the BBC website, the following article caught my attention (emphasis mine) :

Toyota inquiry implies driver error

A preliminary investigation into accidents involving Toyota cars has suggested driver error may have played a part in many of the incidents.

The US National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration is looking into cases of “unintended acceleration”.

But in a briefing to Congress members, it said that data recorders of 58 cars involved in incidents suggested brakes had not been applied in 35 cases.

The NHTSA said it was drawing no conclusions from the findings.

In nine of the 58 cases, the brakes had been applied late, the note said, with both the brake and accelerator depressed in another incident.

But reviewing data recorders was only “one small part” of government efforts “to get to the bottom of unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles,” said Transportation Department spokeswoman Olivia Alair.

Excuse me – since when did cars have data recorders installed?

More to the point, recording what, for how long and accessible to whom?

Many more questions than answers in this story I feel.