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Anybody else following the GM investigation on Capitol Hill?

For frigging 57 cents fix per car and it was too expensive to fix for them.

Wow, just wow.




"Why GM did not recall earlier: House member Diana DeGette said that GM elected not to replace a part that would have cost 57 cents a car because of cost and the lack of "an acceptable business case" for doing so.
Barra said statements in 2005 GM documents showing that the company decided it was too expensive to implement a fix were "very disturbing.""

http://money.cnn.com/2014/04/02/news/companies/gm-recall-hearing/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

That's why we need unions. Oh, wait, sorry wrong thread. Never mind, carry on.

 

[sash]

Everybody posting recalls from other manufacturers are missing the point.

in the GM recall, PEOPLE died, up to 300 of them. GM knew this, and ignored it for about 10 YEARS!!

Now that there is an investigation from authorities, they leap to action and play dumb, and say "We're sorry."

Check out their official GM fb page, the disparaging comments are increasing!

and the recalls keep coming..... over 2 million now!

GM's recall problems grow.

GM = Giant Mistake :lol:

So true. You won’t see that many cars being recalled by a Japanese car manufacturer. And if there are any recalls they do not impede safety or could cause death (none reported ever).

 

[SunnY S]

Honda was much better. They only ignored their ignition problems for 5 years.

http://www.honda.com/newsandviews/article.aspx?id=2002052353859

As per your link : "There have been no accidents or injuries reported to American Honda related to this issue."


GM, you would think that after the first or second death, they would investigate and do something sensible......... you know, like a RECALL or something.

 

[Craneopbru]

FYI: There's a HUGE difference between:

"Over 300 people have died in car accidents where the airbag didn't deploy"

and

"Over 300 people have died in car accidents because the airbag didn't deploy"

Who's to say the airbag would have saved any of those people anyway ? Who's to say it was a defective design that made the ignition switch fail and not the driver hanging three pounds of keys off the side of the ignition.

It's really convenient for people to say exactly what the one lady in one of the linked articles above said. For years she thought it was her fault that the passengers in her car had died when she drove into a tree. Good thing for her that now she gets to blame the big, evil GM.

Yes, companies will look at ways to save costs. But people will also look to blame somebody else for their actions. We all know that is just human nature. Maybe it was poor design, but what if the design was adequate for the car key; what if it was the weight of other keys that brought out a flaw. Is GM supposed to engineer accounting for customer stupidity ?

Don't get me wrong, I in no way believe GM is totally innocent in this; I just feel that they are being made into sort of a scapegoat by a whole lot of lobby groups and people a little too eager to transfer the blame.

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