General Motors had until April 3rd to answer 107 questions provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) regarding its delayed recall of 2.6 million cars for defective ignition switches. GM missed the deadline and now is being fined to the tune of $7,000 a day. The current tally is $28,000 as of today.
The 107 questions were provided by the NHTSA on March 4th, but General Motors has only answered two-thirds of the questions. By March 20th, GM had indicated they would not be able to make the deadline. Reuters reports that GM has said it had “fully cooperated” with NHTSA, including providing more than 271,000 pages of documents with more to come “as soon as they become available.”
General Motors CEO Mary Barra has stated she did not learn about the defect until the end of January 2014, soon after her tenure began.
Once all 107 questions are submitted and reviewed, the NHTSA’s lawyers will review the answers and hide anything confidential before they are released to the public, according to the NHTSA.
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Pardon my language, but those vacuous bastards! Karma’s a bitch and they will get what they deserve (the NHTSA that is). And what the hell are those 107 questions of? I’ve got 5, maybe 10 overall questions to ask General Motors about the ignition switch recall. 100+ is absolutely uncalled for. Hasn’t the NHTSA ever heard of short and sweet? The problem isn’t the amount (as GM clearly makes well over $7K a day), it is the fact that the NHTSA is fining GM for not getting to answer all of the 100+ unneeded questions. Hasn’t the NHTSA ever heard of patience? I mean, sure this was GM’s fault, but doesn’t it seem like they are horribly mistreating GM compared to Toyoblah’s intended acceleration “floor mat” recall?
I wonder if NHTSA will pay a fine why they never found issue with the ignition till the media piled on.
GM is not going to say anything till they know what happened. Imagine if they say the wrong thing here and it turns out to be different how everyone would jump on GM then.
Also if they say the wrong thing it could make a even bigger mess of the legal matter that are pending legit and not legit.
With corporations most are treated anymore as guilty till proven innocent. The government even gave the Fort Hood Shooter [the first one] time to prepare his defense.
Smoke and Mirrors. How about all the records the gove has held back on the IRS issue. Maybe it should fine itself. Nah, bad idea. All they would do is print the $$$$ and the debt would just go up. Ignore these jerks.
I hate that NHTSA make so much pressure to GM; this case is very complicated and has to take a long time to figure out things and have serious and coherent answers on these things.
GM probably wants all this is going to solve; the NHTSA has to let GM works for the good of all the people who are affected.
Regards from Spain