Audit Reveals NHTSA Was Asleep At The Wheel During Takata Airbag Investigation

A government audit released on Wednesday faulted the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) oversight of auto safety recalls and said its "delayed action" may have delayed the expansion of a record-setting callback of millions of vehicles for Takata air bag inflators.

The U.S. Transportation Department's Office of Inspector General said in an audit released to Congress Wednesday that NHTSA's management of vehicle recalls lacks proper oversight. The report found that in the massive Takata air bag recalls the agency did not follow its own procedures to address low recall completion rates and its "delayed action to investigate" complaints may have delayed the expansion of the recalls.

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MDarringer - 7/20/2018 4:36:55 PM

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The enormity of the evil lawlessness of Takata is bad enough, but to compound that with an agency that is supposed to protect people not protecting them is even worse.

TomM - 7/20/2018 7:12:18 PM

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NHTSA is a very large bureaucracy that covers many areas of safety and actually has done many good things. So has the EPA and others.

It amazes me that people who - here - would normally prefer to get rid of such agencies and their regulations to "allow" a free market - complain against a problem with a regulation they wanted killed to begin with.

MDarringer - 7/20/2018 7:44:36 PM

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Ohh so because they are a large bureaucracy it's Ok for them NOT to do their job. Got it.

TomM - 7/21/2018 7:20:12 AM

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Again - I did not say that - CAN YOU READ MATT - Have you actually graduated Kindergarten? I doubt it.

What I did say is that they have done many good things.

THe fact is - YOU have advocated the elimination of such agencies in the past - at which time - these regulations would go OUT THE WINDOW. At which time - you would NOT be able to blame the lack of regulation that YOU crow about.

MDarringer - 7/21/2018 9:41:58 AM

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Oh so when you accuse people of saying something they did not say it's OK but when someone gives you a taste of your own medicine, you have a problem with it? #hypocrite. Take two Aricept and wash them down with Jack Daniels.