Toyota and NHTSA have preliminarily tested the car that Mr Sikes was driving:
Toyota Casts Doubt On Claim Of Runaway Prius : NPR
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Toyota's tests show that the accelerator was fully depressed and that James Sikes lightly hit the brakes more than 250 times during his 24-minute ride last Monday.
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If this goes to court, I hope Mr Sikes is asked: "Where were you driving to/from when this happened?" If he can't answer this satisfactorily, it would show it is likely that he was driving with the purpose of faking this incident.