GM is Still Around. Your Rights? Not So Much

[Edgetho]

You're a moron if you're thinking about a new Generic Motors product. There's a reason they went out of business, people.

They make junk

People think Generic Motors was saved? You're idiots. Generic Motors was NOT saved.

It was dissolved, the Trademark was purchased and a new company emerged.

Costing taxpayers 10 BILLION DOLLARS.

And some rights.......

substantive links at the link

GM Bailout Claims the Legal Rights of Americans - Reason.com

If you are own one of the 1.6 million vehicles General Motors has recalled since February with faulty ignitions and you or a loved one had an accident in the car, there's some more bad news. Your right to collect damages from GM has been signed away. If your accident happened in the years before the old GM's 2009 bankruptcy reorganization, the managers of the auto industry bailout gave immunity to the new GM that emerged.


The GM bailout, which ultimately cost U.S. taxpayers more than $10 billion, is the gift that keeps on giving to the auto giant. Unless courts overturn that immunity, many victims of GM's delayed response in recalling cars with faulty ignition switches will recover few damages.

GM knew there was a problem with the cars, now linked to at least 31 crashes and a dozen deaths, before the launch of the 2005 Chevy Cobalt. An accidental bump could push its key into the "accessory" or "off" position, shutting down the moving vehicle and preventing its air bag from deploying as it crashed.

But GM ignored the problem and put the Cobalt on the road — followed by six other models sharing a similar design — because of the "lead time, cost and effectiveness" involved in any redesign, according to a timeline GM submitted to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA).

Within a year after Cobalt hit the road, field reports about crashes started surfacing. GM's legal department opened a file on a victim whose airbags failed to deploy in 2005, but it didn't inform GM's safety engineers or NHTSA until two years later. The file was opened four years before the bankruptcy reorganization.

dimocraps: Fuck the little people.

 

[Jarlaxle]

So...an "accidental bump" can turn the key off? Well, YEAH! Never seen a car where that WASN'T the case! I've actually done it a couple times...no big deal.

Note: It's much more of a problem for people who hang four pounds of crap on their keychain.