They made it sound accusatory in that bit. Something along the lines of, 'If it wasn't for that darned consent decree we could have gotten away with it.'FCA says this latest discrepancy was found because of the consent decree
In January, Honda Motor Co. agreed to pay a $70 million fine for failing to disclose more than 1,700 reports of deaths, injuries and other “early warning” information to NHTSA, which then was the largest auto safety fine in U.S. history. Honda admitted it violated two sections of a 2000 federal law that requires automakers to disclose reports to NHTSA.
VW has a lot more money in the bank than FCA though. I am not sure how much the fines will actually affect each business, but I think that the real impact, if there is any, will be more so in how regulators change things to catch these types of tricks. Now that may not even happen since that would require Congress and they don't do anything.Feels like FCA and VW will just get a slap on the wrist in the form of fines and settlements. VW is a huge automotive umbrella that rakes in a large amount of money every year, something similar can be said about the FCA.
http://www.leftlanenews.com/nhtsa-f...ths-goes-much-deeper-than-expected-89912.html"We identified it. They went back. It goes much deeper than I think anybody expected," NHTSA administrator Mark Rosekind told reports, according to quotes published by The Detroit News.
After receiving notification from the agency of an apparent discrepancy in its early warning reporting (EWR) numbers, FCA admitted to the underreporting and promised to participate in the subsequent investigation.
Rosekind declined to disclose an estimate of how many deaths and injuries were not included in FCA's required EWR reports, though the results promise to be "pretty surprising." The agency is said to be still uncovering more problems as it continues to look at the data.
"That's what we're trying to figure out," he said. "We find one thing and then it goes back further and so that's what the challenge has been."
So if the of the segment rivals are crap with gas tank safety than they will be just as crappy?In its lengthy dispute with the NHTSA over fuel-tank fire risk in older Jeep Liberty and Grand Cherokee SUVs, FCA persistently argued that both models were just as safe as segment rivals of the era.
