On Monday, Honda Motors announced that a recent audit demonstrated that the company did not report to federal regulators more than 1,700 cases in which their vehicles were involved in an accident resulting in death or injured, over the course of the past 11 years.
Honda claims that less than half of the defect-related cases that should have been reported to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration were actually not reported, and this is what led to the discrepancy in the audit. This data-which automakers supply to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration assist the agency with developing Early Warning Reports (EWRs) that spot defect trends among vehicle launches that can help initiate proper recalls.
Honda argues, however, that their reported shortcomings did not factor in to the recent Takata airbags recall which led to at least three deaths in the United States. They claim that perhaps eight Takata air bag inuries-one of the three deaths, and seven others-were not even reported but the NHTSA learned about them over the years during their investigation in regards to the defective air bag recall.
And Honda is only one of the ten automakers in the United States who currently have recalls related to air bag inflators; but despite the breadth of the recall, Honda remains at the center of the whole controversy. The company, then, also admits that they discovered they have not been properly reporting cases because of confusions which arise with third-party audits. They attest that the underreporting comes from data and coding errors as well as an overly narrow interpretation of the law upon which the requirement is founded.
Thus, Honda says they reported 1,144 cases during the period and did not notice any discrepancies until 2011, but they also admit that they failed to follow up on the discovery.
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, November 25, 2014 - Rating: 4.5
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