The U.S. government is apparently not thorough in investigating the case of the gas pedal on Toyota cars. U.S. space agency NASA which was invited to investigate it. This was said by U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told Reuters on Tuesday (30/3/2010). Not enough just to NASA, recall that he thought the investigation would be assisted also by the experts of the National Academy of Sciences. "We wanted to issue this Toyota accelerator completely wrong," said LaHood. Previously, the agency usually handles cases in the U.S. Toyota's recall is an agency under the U.S. Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). NHTSA is still doing a review of the case the gas pedal on a car with problems that Toyota tails with a recall of about 8.5 million Toyota and Lexus cars in the last 6 months. NHTSA believed to be completing its review process this summer. LaHood tells if NASA scientists did not find anything dramatic during the investigation, the review process will not be back. There are at least 9 of NASA scientists who will investigate the electronic side, interference eletromagnetik, software integrity, and various other problems. LaHood tells NASA's request for assistance to that triggered by the U.S. Congress some time ago. "You never ask them for help before. We also have heard that the results of their analysis may have no impact," LaHood said when asked why he requested the help of NASA. If found guilty Toyota, Toyota could be fined millions of dollars to a maximum of U.S. $ 16.4 million