Nov 27, 2014

Honda will pay a penalty for hiding defects

Honda Company faces a record penalty accounting 35 million dollars for the concealment of cars’ defects that could lead to more than 1700 accidents in the United States with the death and injuries. American Honda unit acknowledged the non-awareness of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on the 1729 incidents (eight of them occurred due to faulty airbags Takata). Producer explained the hiding information as "unforeseen failures in a database and software errors." Now Japanese Company is faced the punishment in the form of seven thousand dollars for each day of hiding information from July 2003 to the end of June 2014 years. During this period, the company informed the American authorities about 1144 accidents occurred due to defective machines, while the majority of the cases were from the authorities are hidden. There no doubt that Honda will have to pay 35 million dollars.