Did political considerations within the federal government delay a recall of defective GM ignition switches? This issue has been percolating for a few weeks, when the automaker finally initiated a recall of over a million vehicles after years of complaints and more than a dozen deaths. The defect had been known to GM since at least 2004 — and to the NHTSA since 2007. Now a wide recall is in effect, but criminal investigators have begun probes into the delay and the deaths, according to this CNN report from earlier today:
ZitatMeanwhile, back in Detroit, evidence of problems in various GM cars – and especially the Chevy Cobalts — continued to mount.
So the govt' WANTED poor people to die? Cobalts are one step above a bicycle. I wonder what would have been the response if Cadillac owners were dying?
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