Capitol Hill Pounces On Takata Air Bag Recall - Should Suppliers That Have Repeated Safety Defects Be Banned From The US Market?

Capitol Hill Pounces On Takata Air Bag Recall - Should Suppliers That Have Repeated Safety Defects Be Banned From The US Market?

Capitol Hill increased pressure on the Japanese auto supplier Takata and federal safety regulators on Wednesday as two senators demanded wider recalls to fix millions of defective airbags and a House committee said it wanted a fuller accounting of how the recalls were handled.

In a sternly worded letter expected to be sent on Thursday, Senators Richard Blumenthal and Edward J. Markey scolded the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for its handling of the recalls.

The senators reprimanded the agency for allowing automakers to limit the recalls to certain geographic areas with “high humidity.”


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pepito66pepito66 - 10/23/2014 9:13:56 PM
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That's a good one of course they should be banned from US Market at once.


Agent009Agent009 - 10/24/2014 10:43:04 AM
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I would say we are seeing the Walmart syndrome in the supplier segment.

That is the automakers are pressuring razor thin margins from the suppliers.

This encourages cost cutting by the supplier and cutting corners. These cut corners are often the cause of recalls. If you always cut corners in the wrong places then you will have quality issues all of the time.

Takata for example says cost savings affected quality and they made sub par components for over a decade.

In this situation the problem was known, people died from the problems and it was allowed to continue.

If you ban supplier content from US bound cars, then you have basically crippled the supplier and given the industry a stern warning to not screw with cars destined for the US.



tecnopolistecnopolis - 10/27/2014 1:34:07 AM
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This is Takata's second go around with a serious safety recall. Previously they had to recall their defective seat belts that had defective latches and could release in an accident. They blamed that on Americans drivers and their french fries interfering with the latching mechanism, whats the excuse now?




tecnopolistecnopolis - 10/27/2014 1:34:07 AM
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This is Takata's second go around with a serious safety recall. Previously they had to recall their defective seat belts that had defective latches and could release in an accident. They blamed that on Americans drivers and their french fries interfering with the latching mechanism, whats the excuse now?
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