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12
Date
GM
Leadership
GM Workers
Suppliers
Government
Customers
• DeGiorgio
tells team that
there were no
ignition
switch
changes
related to
power
2010
• CEO
Edward
Whitacre, Jr
(12/1/09-
9/1/10)
• GM was
again
profitable
• NHTSA ODI
again reviewed
Cobalt issues
but reported no
trend
• Legal cases
referenced
airbag non-
deployment
“anomalies“
• March
crash:
Melton
2005 Cobalt
Georgia
2011
• CEO Dan
Akerson
(9/1/10-
1/15/14)
• January – GM
Legal inquired
into airbag
“anomaly”
• July – GM
Legal
investigation
did nothing
for 2.5 years
(GM Nod)
• August – GM
started a Field
Performance
Evaluation
(FPE) into
frontal crashes
where the
airbags did
not deploy –
not classified
as a safety
issue
2012
• May – GM
13
Date
GM
Leadership
GM Workers
Suppliers
Government
Customers
vehicles for
torque issues
• 2003-2007
fail below 10
N-cm
• 2007 and later
fail below 15
N-cm
• June –
DeGiorgio
states in
writing that he
made no
changes to
affect the
torque in 2006
• September –
GM Red-X
team finds no
cars to test
why switch
differed by
model year
2013
• April – GM
hires outside
engineer Gay
Kent to
• October –
Delphi
produced
documentation
15
Date
GM
Leadership
GM Workers
Suppliers
Government
Customers
• November –
Judge rules that
GM keeps
bankruptcy
protection
18
This was the key design that was cancelled (from the Valukas Report):
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5f6b-41f4-8f9e-1fae500fd98a&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-
56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=b06c39af-e033-4cba-9221-
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Committee. 16 September 2014.
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I/20140915GMFootnotes/NHTSAreportfinal.pdf
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1416842193
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(hearing 2)
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