{"id":518288,"date":"2010-04-06T14:47:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T18:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/?p=18352"},"modified":"2010-04-06T14:47:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T18:47:52","slug":"nhtsa-to-fine-toyota-16-4-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/518288","title":{"rendered":"NHTSA to Fine Toyota $16.4 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will seek a $16.4 million civil fine from Toyota for failing to acknowledge \u201cunintended acceleration\u201d problems. NHTSA rules require automakers to notify the regulatory board within five days of discovering a problem. The agency claims that Toyota knew of sticking accelerator pedals by the end of last September\u2014and warned Toyota dealers in Europe and Canada\u2014but didn\u2019t notify U.S. owners or NHTSA for another four months.<\/p>\n

The fine will be the largest civil fine that NHTSA has ever levied against an automaker and is the maximum fine the regulatory board can impose. The maximum fine was chosen because Toyota \u201cknowingly hid a dangerous defect for months from U.S. officials and did not take action to protect millions of drivers and their families,\u201d according to transportation secretary Ray LaHood.<\/p>\n

For its part, a Toyota statement acknowledged the NHTSA fine and reiterated that the automaker has already taken steps toward improving its safety record. While we don’t condone Toyota keeping information to itself, if that’s actually the case, we stand by our belief that this whole situation has been blown way out of proportion. This is likely NHTSA’s attempt at saving face, as it has also come under fire for its handling of the recalls.<\/p>\n

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For more, read our timeline of the Toyota fiasco<\/a> or our full roundup of recall coverage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Related posts:<\/p>\n

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  1. Toyota Adds 1.1 Million Vehicles to Floor-Mat Recall, Now Includes Pontiac Vibe<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Toyota and Lexus Recalling 3.8 Million Vehicles to Fix Pedals, Floor Mats<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. NHTSA Numbers Show Continued Decrease in Road Fatalities<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will seek a $16.4 million civil fine from Toyota for failing to acknowledge \u201cunintended acceleration\u201d problems. NHTSA rules require automakers to notify the regulatory board within five days of discovering a problem. The agency claims that Toyota knew of sticking accelerator pedals by the end of last September\u2014and warned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}