Issues
NHTSA fines Chrysler $95,000
On January 2, 2001, DaimlerChrysler Corporation and NHTSA entered a settlement agreement in the amount of $95,000 related to NHTSA’s investigation into Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 114 Compliance by model year 1996-2000 vehicles.
Ford fined $50,000 by NHTSA
On March 16, 1998, Ford Motor Company and NHTSA agreed to a $50,000 civil penalty settlement regarding Recall Query RQ97-001. The complete text of the penalty agreement may be found here.
Internal Ford documents about Explorer rollovers take a look at engineering
These days, federal safety investigators are scrutinizing Toyota, seeking the elusive causes behind hundreds of reports of unintended acceleration.
But a decade ago, the federal safety agency were facing another high-profile technical mystery: More than 100 people had died in Ford Explorers. Was it faulty Firestone tires or was the Explorer itself too prone to rollover?
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration eventually sided with the automaker, blaming the tires and rejecting charges that the popular sport-utility vehicle was unstable.
W.Va. and Gulf of Mexico disasters muddy the image of ‘clean’ energy industries
April 24, 2010
By Steven Mufson