Jun 09, 2015 bestoftheweb, NHTSA, RoadSafety, CarRepair
NHTSA will increase investigations, make more contact with plaintiffs' lawyers and question assumptions made by its own personnel and automakers.
The changes come after internal reports that acknowledge that NHTSA's regulators did not demand more information from GM even after it asked about air bag non-deployments and got incomplete answers or legal justifications as to why GM would not or did not have to respond.
One of the reports also noted that neither GM nor NHTSA regulators fully understood how the ignition switch and the air bags worked in tandem, believing incorrectly that the air bags would still deploy even if the key was inadvertently jostled out of the "run" position during a crash.
That lack of understanding, the report said, led to other possible lines of inquiry being disregarded, even when they were suggested by outside investigators. And even as NHTSA conducted its own post-crash investigations into instances where air bags did not deploy and attempted to detect trends, information inside the agency was not always shared across its divisions."
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