The highest-ranking official at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Monday he has met with executives at 12 major automakers in recent months to urge them to take defect issues more seriously.
In a 30-minute Detroit News interview ahead of his appearance Tuesday before the Senate Commerce Committee panel that oversees the auto safety agency, Deputy NHTSA Administrator David Friedman, who has run the agency since January, defended the auto safety agency in the face of criticism about the agency’s performance.
Friedman said the meetings with the automakers were “to send a clear message to them” that “there’s zero tolerance for a car company failing to find and fix defects, and report them to NHTSA.”
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