Several years prior to the February 2014 General Motors ignition switch recall, car rental companies did their best to get the automaker's attention regarding a series of accidents and fatalities linked to the latter's low-cost fleet offerings.
Bloomberg reports that as early as 2005, companies such as Enterprise, Alamo and Hertz all reported accidents to GM involving the Chevrolet Cobalt. Each report noted the failed deployment of the vehicle's airbags, such as the September 2006 fatal accident involving an Alamo unit, as well as braking and steering issues that led up to the accidents.
Though the companies did their best to get the automaker to do something, GM believed there wasn't "sufficient information" to link the problems experienced to the accidents reported, as explained to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in one of their meetings between 2005 and 2013. The reports are now part of a growing collection of evidence of both parties' inability to act quickly prior to the February 2014 recall.
In the present, GM has modified its safety-monitoring system to handle questions and concerns from the car rental industry over potential flaws, as well as backing a U.S. Senate bill that would prohibit affected vehicles from being rented or sold without having first been repaired.
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