It turns out it's quite cushy to tell which of the two doable throttle pedals your late-model Toyota was built with. Pedals prefabricated by CTS are subject to the recall, those prefabricated by Denso are not. We walked downstairs to our own parking garage yesterday to have a look at Toyotas owned by Edmunds employees. 

For many of the Toyota vehicles on the list, you don't even have to look: 100% of them were built in North USA and therefore have the pedal in question. The position of the other cars on the list comes down to whether the car was built in Nihon or North America. This is easily determined by looking at a single digit in the VIN.

It's all cut and dry by VIN until you come to the Camry. U.S.-built examples of those vehicles have been built with both pedals, so a simple visual inspection of the pedal itself as shown above is necessary to see whether owners should expect to see a recall notice in the mail in the coming weeks.

More details about VINs and larger photos of the two pedals can be found after the jump.

The following cars are 100 percent North American-built and use the locally sourced CTS pedals exclusively. All owners will receive a recall notice.

This next group of vehicles are prefabricated in Nihon and North America. The Asian plants use the locally prefabricated Denso part, while the the NA plants use the affected CTS part. The first digit of a Japan-made car's VIN will be the letter "J." Those prefabricated in North USA will have a numeral as the leading digit. Owners of the following vehicles will get a recall notice if their car's VIN does not start with "J."

The one exception to all of this VIN-based certainty is the so-called "4T1" Camry. Those cars might have either of the two pedals, so an inspection is required to tell if a given car is part of the recall or not.

Edmunds employee Al's 2007 Camry has the "4T1" VIN sequence. A quick look under the dash reveals a Denso pedal. The four bolts that hold the assembly together are obvious, but the biggest and most conclusive giveaway is the word "DENSO" stamped clearly for all to see.

Bob's 2010 Camry also has a VIN that begins with "4T1" but his pedal looks quite different. There are no obvious bolts holding it together and two metal plates cover the innards. There's a part number and some other notations, but the manufacturer's study does not appear. This, therefore, is the "other" pedal, the one subject to the recall action.

None of the employee cars I inspected with the recalled pedals had the slightest hint of a problem — all operated smoothly and returned swiftly when released. Some of them were several years old with tens of thousands of miles, too.

That's to be expected, because the problem is still a rare development. A lot of cars are involved in the recall because Toyota needs to call in all of the cars with the suspect pedal to be absolutely sure a sticky throttle doesn't develop on more cars in the future.

It's worth noting that this new pedal issue does not replace the previously announced floormat interference recall. That issue is still in play for a different set of Toyota and Lexus vehicles.