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Transportation

Dec. 3, 2014

We must hold automakers accountable

To be sure, 2014 will be remembered as a year the world changed - the year that honest disclosure gave way to raw deception; the year that automakers challenged our belief in all that is right and just. By Jonathan Michaels


By Jonathan Michaels


To be sure, 2014 will be remembered as a year the world changed - the year that honest disclosure gave way to raw deception; the year that automakers challenged our belief in all that is right and just.


The crisis began with General Motors' admission on Feb. 7 that it had been concealing an ignition switch defect in its vehicles for 13 years. GM has now admitted that it killed 33 citizens; but for years, it callously sat back an...

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