Shikha Dalmia on the Feds Botched Oversight of GM’s Cobalts

The House
Energy and Commerce Committee issued the findings of its
months-long investigation of NHTSA’s (National Highway Traffic and
Safety Administration) handling of GM’s ignition switch debacle and
they are damning!

It turns out the agency missed the true cause of why GM’s 2005
Cobalt and its sister cars were sometimes suddenly stopping and
crashing because it did not understand the workings of the advanced
airbag systems that it had itself mandated.

Yet, instead, of begging for forgiveness for its manifest
ineptitude in protecting the drivers in whose name it exists, its
chief went before Congress last week, defiant and unrepentant, and
demanded more money for more staff.

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