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Transportation Secretary Foxx may summon automakers to a summit
Transportation Secretary Foxx may summon automakers to a summitFederal Eye
By Ashley Halsey III September 30
He didn’t call it a come-to-Jesus conversation or say that anyone was being taken to the woodshed, but there was no mistaking what U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx meant when he said it’s time to invite the world’s automakers to Washington for a frank conversation about integrity and their need to recall millions of defective vehicles.
“It’s time to bring everybody in here and have a deeper conversation,” Foxx said in a meeting with reporters Tuesday. “One of them is: ‘Look, folks, we have millions of people who rely on what you make every day to get everywhere from to work to putting their most precious cargo, their kids, in cars.’ ”
His comment came on the same day that federal regulators accused Fiat Chrysler Automobiles of underreporting the number of people who had died in crashes involving its vehicles. The disclosure by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration came more than two months after Fiat Chrysler agreed to pay up to $105 million in fines for failing to meet reporting requirements and fix cars effectively in recalls of 11 million vehicles.
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Carmakers are required to file regular crash-data reports to NHTSA and inform the agency when they discover potential defects in their vehicles. ... The auto industry has been caught in underreporting and misrepresentation to regulators in the past two years, as it has faced the largest number of recalls in its history.
By Ashley Halsey III September 30
He didn’t call it a come-to-Jesus conversation or say that anyone was being taken to the woodshed, but there was no mistaking what U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx meant when he said it’s time to invite the world’s automakers to Washington for a frank conversation about integrity and their need to recall millions of defective vehicles.
“It’s time to bring everybody in here and have a deeper conversation,” Foxx said in a meeting with reporters Tuesday. “One of them is: ‘Look, folks, we have millions of people who rely on what you make every day to get everywhere from to work to putting their most precious cargo, their kids, in cars.’ ”
His comment came on the same day that federal regulators accused Fiat Chrysler Automobiles of underreporting the number of people who had died in crashes involving its vehicles. The disclosure by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration came more than two months after Fiat Chrysler agreed to pay up to $105 million in fines for failing to meet reporting requirements and fix cars effectively in recalls of 11 million vehicles.
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Carmakers are required to file regular crash-data reports to NHTSA and inform the agency when they discover potential defects in their vehicles. ... The auto industry has been caught in underreporting and misrepresentation to regulators in the past two years, as it has faced the largest number of recalls in its history.
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