Honda Fined for Violations of Safety Law

[tay]

In a sharp escalation of penalties against automakers that skirt safety laws, the nation’s top auto safety agency has fined Honda Motor a record $70 million for grossly underreporting fatal accidents and injuries to the government, regulators said on Thursday.


The penalty doubles a fine levied against General Motors last year as the agency, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, faces scrutiny for being slow to identify safety problems and failing to use the full extent of its legal powers.


Honda, the agency said, broke the law in two ways, each earning the maximum fine of $35 million. It did not report hundreds of death and injury claims to the agency for the last 11 years nor did it report certain warranty and other claims in the same period. Both types of reports are considered crucial to helping regulators identify potential safety defects.




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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/b...derreporting-safety-issues-to-government.html

 

[gopher]

We had a case here in St Paul where a man was driving a Honda and he crashed killing three innocent people. He testified in court that his car accelerated uncontrollably but he was found guilty of manslaughter and imprisoned. A few years later these statistics came out and the man was exonerated. Now he is suing Honda and gave testimony at a civil trial just this week.

 

[damngrumpy]

Not to defend Honda I drive Chev's but is this in Canada or the USA?
There is a difference in many cases so we should be clear. I think we
are finding out industry in many respects are cutting corners and that
is unacceptable in any country. Two reasons trying to be competitive
in business and people wanting things to be cheap the lowest price is
the law attitude. The old saying is we get what we pay for.
Yup a bunch of crap built cheap so we end up buying three instead of
one and thinking we're getting a bargain. In addition we lost the jobs
in manufacturing we depended on for a healthy tax base. Remember
now everything is cheaper. Then it comes to us personally. Everything
is cheaper so you should work for less, well no. We have to start this
over again. We should support our industries, we should support our
farmers we should support each other in the marketplace. We should be
willing to pay our fair share of taxes as well How do these companies
get away with things? It is a mind set that creeps in with an every bodies
doing it mentality and somehow that should make it acceptable. The way
to set the record straight is to send a few people to jail as well as the fine.

 

[taxslave]

I wonder how car manufacturers are supposed to know how many of their vehicles are involved in crashes without accessing government data so they can give this number to another branch of the government.

 

[lone wolf]

How many people send a change of address form to their car's mommy and daddy so they can notify you of recall notices?

Not really on topic but sort of....

 

[DaSleeper]

How many people send a change of address form to their car's mommy and daddy so they can notify you of recall notices?

Not really on topic but sort of....

You have to get with the times Wolf.....they don't need to know where you live if they have your email address..

 

[lone wolf]

...which'll probably go to Junk and the flusher....