Posted on 11/10/2014 11:00:34 AM PST by jazusamo
Women's Museum Asked to Rescind Mary Barra Award; GM CEO Made History 'of Wrong Kind'
throw her in prison
If one deals with dim-bulb-crats, they are most certainly inept, corrupt and should be kept away from machinery.
GM deals with din-bulb-crats, and as an ex GM owner, I can testify that all of their divisions were run by MBAs, with 100 MBAs for each engineer.
Nevah again, GM. Shove your cr*p up your collective Obamaholes.
If only we put the government in charge of the company....Oh wait.
But Obamacare will be different.
I’m still having a hard time understanding how a defective ignition switch can cause someone to crash their car.
Obama saved GM!
I never hear any source quesion whether any of these horrendhorrendous defects were covered up during the Government Motors period under real or implied pressure to hide anything that could disrupt the “wonderful government”/GM is alive, Osama is dead campaign meme. Sounds a lot like covered up Bengazi, Al Qaeda, Climate Hoax, BLS data, etc.
While driving the defective switch easily was moved to “off” shutting down engine, power steering, brakes and disabled airbags.
Many articles have been posted, enter keyword “ignitionswitch.”
The level of corruption in the Government Motors bailout and “bankruptcy” (if you can call it that after the massive violations of bankruptcy law, contract law, and common law allowed GM to stiff the bondholders and others with legal claims to their assets to Obama could reward his cronies) is so severe that I have no sympathy for those who deal with that company.
Those who buy GM know they are climbing in bed with a dog, and they get no sympathy if they wake up with fleas. I am boycotting GM products forever (not even renting their cars at the airport), and those who are less selective should learn from their mistakes, since they can’t learn by watching.
So far 32 deaths have been attributed to faulty key switches, presumably going as far back as 1998, the earliest year that a GM car is subject to this recall.
Maybe Mary Barra needs to answer the questions "what did you know and when did you know it?" but I'm not ready to form a lynch mob quite yet.
Okay.
Your engine, your power brakes and your power steering have shut down.
Pop the car in neutral and begin easing it to the side of the road.
The steering and brakes still work, they just require a bit of extra effort.
I STILL don’t understand why the loss of power brakes and power steering results in so many crashes.
GM went from making cars to being part of the Democrat Party.
Switch turns off randomly...no power, sterling or brakes. Just so I have one of those GM pieces of c$@&. Never again.
GM has admitted they knew of the problem in 2005 and re-engineered the switch without recalling the cars already on the road. They blamed it on mid-level people and recently fired 15 or so and didn’t announce the recall until February of this year.
It’s going to cost them dearly for not recalling when they should have and would have saved some of those peoples lives.
Do YOU understand that having no power steering and no power brakes does NOT mean that you have no steering and no brakes? All it means is that the power assist functions have shut down for those control features. So, instead of panicking, a driver COULD choose to provide the added effort needed to operate the now-more-cumbersome controls at his disposal to begin steering his car towards the safest possible place to stop and call a tow truck.
Of course, this will get the same scrutiny from the government and state run media that Toyota’s acceleration recall got. (The tag is there. Just look harder.)
I'd think that since the power brakes are gone and the engine has stopped, you'd want to leave it in gear and downshift, letting the additional drag from the drivetrain help slow the car.
Perhaps.
But the braking effort needed to slow the average passenger car from a normal highway speed is not particularly great, even without the power assist.
I have a pre-govtmotors Corvette. It has a safety recall because the dim headlights do not work. This has been on recall without a fix for 4 months. My last conversation with a GM supervisor ended with her saying “don’t drive it at night”. F GM!
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