NASA does have a large continent of forensic engineers which is actually more relevent to the discussion than automotive engineers. Though so does the NTSB, so

NASA does have a large continent of forensic engineers which is actually more relevent to the discussion than automotive engineers. Though so does the NTSB, so honestly I'd rather see a study done by the NTSB. An automotive engineer will know how automotive companies usually design braking and acceleration systems. They can tell you if Toyota did something out of the ordinary compared to the industry standard. Assuming they didn't, the automotive engineer is no more qualified to go deeper than that than any other mechanical engineer. So bringing in a forensic engineer who knows how to deconstruct accidents is probably far more relevent than bringing in an automotive engineer who knows how to create a braking system by stiching together vendor components.