I think several things came out of this. First, I should have started the public information campaign around the pedal several days earlier when the first recall message was sent to Transport Canada.
The issue of the sticky pedal is technical in nature. It's hard to see inside the pedal so it's difficult to actually display to the media. I have a cutaway of the pedal here that I will pass around to members of the committee. Basically this represents the pedal inside your car. This is the foot pad, and it is basically a lever.
We are making a simple adjustment inside the pedal to reduce the force of the friction assembly operating against the pedal. It's 100% effective. When you see the way it operates you'll understand very clearly how that system functions. However, in looking at the pedal itself it was very difficult for the public to understand what that meant. More importantly, it was becoming confused with issues of runaway cars, which is not something that the sticky pedal causes.