Once again, you want GM to be held 100% to account for something that the OWNER did; something which the owners were told NOT to do!
I do investigations. Very seldom is there ever a single CAUSE for an incident. It usually has several mitigating circumstances. In this case, the cause of the problem is a less than perfect ignition switch, being used by stupid users who ignore the manufacturer!
I am NOT taking up for GM, I think they own some of the fault in this, but we conservatives always talk about personal responsibility. Well, these owners were told about the problem and what caused it and they continued to do stuff that violated the warnings.
As I stated in my last post, if GM develops a new spring that holds the brake better than the last model, does this mean that GM is conducting malfeasance by not replacing the same spring in all their past models? The answer is obviously NO! They found a problem, told people how to avoid the problem and now people like you want to crucify them because they didn’t rush out and make their vehicle idiot proof! Guess what, NO CAR is idiot proof!
I have owned vehicles that had recalls, everyone of those recalls were based on problems that either existed or came into being without any action on the part of the operator of the vehicle. THIS recall is based on a less than perfect ignition switch being used by someone who refuses to follow the manufacturers warnings/instructions. PERIOD!
>>NO CAR is idiot proof!
No argument there. I didn’t read where GM had instructed owners about the problem. Can it be demonstrated that the victims received the instruction?
My standpoint is the too common perception that corporate (and any bureaucratic) thought processes, when faced with blame, first and foremost deny, stonewall, and evade rather than join with the investigator to get to the truth no matter what. I’m sure you run into this, just like you run into scammers trying to take who ever has deep pockets to the cleaners.
My original point was that, if Mother Theresa had broken the story rather than Roger Moore, commenters on FR might have been less dismissive of the problem under discussion. Moore may be a repugnant trotskyite peckerwood, but his personal qualities absolutely need to be separated from the facts that he or any other investigative journalist or documentarist come up with. Have a good one.
Ex CA corpsman who served with the USMC