Issues
Boxer Presses General Motors CEO Mary Barra on Rental Car Safety – 4/2/14
Senator Asks Why GM Is Part of Industry Effort to Block Legislation to Protect Consumers from Unsafe, Recalled Rental Cars – While at the Same Time Placing Owners of Its Own Recalled Cars into Rental Vehicles
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) today questioned General Motors CEO Mary Barra on rental car safety at a Senate Commerce Subcommittee hearing on GM’s recall of 2.6 million vehicles. Senator Boxer asked Barra to explain GM’s opposition – through the industry trade group, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers – to the Raechel and Jacqueline Houck Safe Rental Car Act, which would protect consumers from unsafe rental vehicles under recall – at the same time that GM is placing owners of its own recalled vehicles into rental cars.
Markey Joins Victims, Survivors of Faulty GM Ignition Switches Who Want Action & Answers – 4/1/14
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Major Recalls – General Motors Ignition Switches
General Motors Ignition Switch
Major Recalls – Jeep Grand Cherokee Fuel Tank
Jeep Grand Cherokee Fuel Tank
CAS letter to NHTSA on GM Airbag Algorithm Non-Deployment Defect
April 7, 2014 The Honorable David J. Friedman Acting Administrator National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building Washington, D.C. 20590 Dear Administrator Friedman: On about November 15, 2013, Don Friedman of Xprts LLC filed a defect petition (DP) with NHTSA on a defective algorithm in 2003-10 General Motors that…