I think you are wrong in this case. People died because the vehicles kept having unexpected shutoffs. The computers showed this. GM went out of its way to not acknowledge the cause, they had the part changed, and did not show on the replacement that it was different. They could have kept the exact number, changed the number, or added an “a” to show that it was different.
They were hiding it and you know it.
I am glad your life experience is different. I have worked for the government and major companies and my experience is that management cares not who dies especially if it impacts this years bonus.
Nonsense. That’s the Hollywood “corporations are always evil” liberal party line.
People died... Well, sure. Upwards from 35,000 or 40,000 people die in cars every year. If six people die over five years in three different models of cars it doesn’t immediately follow that there is some obvious defect in a part that caused all of them. GM and Ford and everybody else has people data mining all those records constantly looking for commonalities that may point to a shared defect. It’s a lot harder to find them than it looks. There are thousands of common parts and there are thousands of unique parts. There are many times when it is only certain combinations of multiple parts that prove to be the problem.
Then they have to do vigorous testing to determine if the problem is in the design, the materials, the manufacture, or lately... Software. All of that takes more time. I’ve been in some of those meetings and I remember coming away, especially at first, being really impressed with how concerned they all were with getting it right and doing the right thing. They just aren’t the bad guys that liberal muckrakers make them out to be.