Safety?--Legal system--NOT Justice--(irritating post)

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(04-11-2014 21:11)davidbrady Wrote:  More info on GM and the ignition switch: Bloomberg News. Piecing together the puzzle...

Damning comments about GM…
“The documents also paint a picture of a company in denial and engaged in subterfuge. Though GM had two opportunities to fix the deadly ignition switch, it declined to do so because it would take too long and was too expensive.”
The above has strong similarities to the Blue Bird trial documents
Everyone trying to protect themselves. NHTSA is NOT the savior here.
“The general perception is that GM is slow to communicate, slow to act, and, at times, requires additional effort of ODI that we do not feel is necessary with some of your peers,” Frank Borris, head of NHTSA Office of Defect Investigation wrote in a note to GM’s director of product investigations in July 2013, complaining of the automaker’s inconsistency and lack of coordination on recalls.
GM should have had some corporate ethics once the problem was diagnosed and NHTSA should and could have acted far sooner.
NHTSA has a Compendium of rules and has the power to act and make things happen. ODI just looked the other way as Mr Ditlow of Auto Safety has indicated.
In the Blue Bird problem, Blue bird and NHTSA knew that the units were/are overweight. This was known during manufacture. Consumer fraud verdicts are there. NHTSA allowed and accepted changes to standard weighing procedures and never demanded a “Remedy” as per their Compendium. NHTSA allowed devious weight placards and as with GM, Blue bird has admitted that a “Fix” was too expensive. The court was even told that larger tires were installed. The percentage of complaints from owners and accidents/injuries per vehicle is far higher than in the GM case but still nothing.
But who’s bitter?

Ross