It's easy to make superficial changes to a flood-damaged car and make it look like a good vehicle. But it's very likely to be a particularly trouble-prone car over time.

You have a car that goes from being a usable car to what some call a lawn ornament -- you park it on the lawn if you don't have money to fix it.

Total restoration of a flood-damaged car can be as extensive and expensive as restoring a classic car,

An MFO vehicle was damaged. The two occupants of the vehicle are unharmed and uninjured.

We have had grade inflation. NHTSA should make the tests more stringent.

This is a relatively new issue because electronic keys just came on to the market in the late 1990s. Back then, I think a maximum of 10 percent of the cars on the road had these kinds of keys; now I think it's more like 60 percent, and of course it takes time for people to start losing their keys, so we are just starting to see these sorts of problems and I think it's the tip of the iceberg.