Is Toyota going far enough?

Toyota will reconfigure accelerator pedals on the 3.8 million vehicles it has recalled, and in some cases the shape of the floor surface under the pedal to try to prevent more accidents like that ones that have killed 13 people, government regulators say. But so far it doesn't plan to do anything about the companion problems that the government identified last year in trying to pinpoint the cause of deadly crashes.

Besides the floor mat, the government pointed to Toyota's stop-start button that takes three seconds of continuous depression to turn off. It also noted that the lettering on the automatic transmission makes it hard to figure out the neutral position in an emergency. Both of those additional factors appear to have figured in the August deaths of a California highway patrolman and his family who were driving a Lexus ES 350.

Toyota said nothing about addressing the problem of stop-start button -- and how to shut off engines in an emergency. Or any changes in the transmission.