To put this into some sort of perspective, which I realize is always wildly unpopular.
There are 2.6M cars recalled. To be conservative, let’s assume each was drive 50,000 miles before being recalled. That’s 130,000,000,000 miles.
13 deaths, although the true number is likely higher, works out to one death for each 10B miles.
The fatality rate in 2012 on American roads was 1.14 per 100M miles or unless I’m dropping a decimal somewhere, 114 per 10B miles.
IOW, the increase in risk of fatality for driving one of these cars was something less than 1% above driving an average car.
I get lost in the numbers, sometimes, so I may be off somewhere, though.
All true but in my view it boils down to the fact they knew about the problem early on, made a change to the ignition switch and did NOT recall the cars already on the road to change that switch.
People died after that change was made because they didn’t recall those vehicles.