them have have got nothing to do with the sticking pedal at all , '' said Antony Anderson , an electronics consultant in Newcastle-upon-Tyne , England . Anderson said electronic throttle controls , which largely have replaced mechanical accelerators , can malfunction in ways he compared to an occasionally disobedient child . `` We 've all had that type of experience , and I 'm afraid that is the sort of experience that can happen with any piece of electronics , with an electronic throttle , '' he said . And Sean Kane , who runs a company called Safety Research Strategies in Rehoboth , Massachusetts , said , `` Toyota 's explanations do not account for the share of unintended acceleration complaints that we have examined . '' Toyota officials dispute any assertion that the complicated array of electronics in its cars has an impact on the acceleration issues that have dominated headlines in the past weeks . `` After many years of exhaustive testing by us and by other organizations , we have found no evidence of an electronic problem in our electronic throttle control systems that could have led to unwanted acceleration , '' said John Hanson
College Park , Maryland -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- In his hectic , noisy laboratory at the University of Maryland , Michael Pecht is wary when it comes to assessing whether Toyota 's suggested repair of sticky gas pedals will have any real impact . `` They are in a bit of a quandary , '' said Pecht , a professor at Maryland 's Clark School of Engineering . `` If they announce that electronics is a problem , they are probably going to be in a lot of trouble , because nobody 's going to drive the car . So at this stage , they do n't want to announce there is any electronic problem . '' But according to Pecht , who is an expert in failure analysis and has written a book on sudden acceleration in automobiles , complicated electronics -- not a mechanical issue with the gas pedal -- lie at the heart of Toyota 's problems . And three other independent safety analysts contacted by CNN also conclude that neither floor mats nor stuck gas pedals are an overwhelming issue . `` From what people have told me about their sudden acceleration incidents , most of