Surement plus car certaines personnes ne sont pas publiées à l'externe. Ceci est le minimum.
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L'article émet une opinion basée sur les faits observés lors des témoignages de GM et des la NHTSA sur le Switchgate devant le Congrès américain. Il y a de nombreux articles écrits sur le Switchgate qui corroborent ces faits. J'ai simplement choisi l'article parce qu'il résumait bien la situation et que ça m'évitait d'avoir à poster des dizaines d'heures de transcripts de l'enquête.
Comme je disais, je travaille à côté du Laboratoire d'enquête sur la sécurité automobile. Avant hier, une Cruze a fait son apparition dans la cour ;)
Drôle de hasard ! XD
Et hop ! On en rajoute un petit 8,4 millions !
http://www.autoblog.com/2014/06/30/g...lems-official/
ça fait vraiment dur..........
http://www.autoblog.com/2014/09/20/w...lincoln-china/Citation:
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration received a brutal one-two punch from Congress this week for its response to the General Motors ignition-switch scandal.
NHTSA was hammered in a 45-page House report, and then grilled by senators during a hearing on Capitol Hill. Both on paper and in person, legislators picked apart the agency's plodding, seemingly inept responses to GM, and questioned NHTSA's ability to serve as a watchdog for the auto industry, which has faced extensive recalls, fines and controversy in recent years.
Deputy administrator David Friedman, who's only been with NHTSA since 2013, had few answers when questioned on the hill, and by the end of the lengthy session, senators had painted the unflattering portrait of a toothless agency in disarray.
Yes, there was some grandstanding. But legislators, and Friedman's responses to their often-testy questions, illustrated a valuable point – NHTSA needs help. It needs more power, more people and more money to effectively regulate on of the most complex industries in the nation.
NHTSA's authority, or seeming lack thereof, came under repeated fire from senators. It can only fine automakers $35 million for safety violations, something a proposed bill seeks to change. Even Toyota's record $1.2-billion settlement with the US attorney's office in its unintended acceleration cases was technically for wire fraud. The bill, introduced in August by Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), would also double NHTSA's funding for vehicle safety. If the legislation passes, auto executives could face prison sentences for delaying a recall, which would force companies to take NHTSA more seriously.