Fined by 3 million dollars on bmw

Imposed on federal agencies responsible for safety by a fine of $ 3 million to BMW of North America, for delayed in reporting safety-related malfunctions and failure to provide adequate information, and will pay a fine to the treasury and the U.S. Treasury Department.

The law requires auto makers to know the "National Commission to maintain safety on the highways" (NH T SA) during the period of five working days, when the diagnosis of a defect or malfunction of safety and that they call the cars from the market immediately.
The authority said it had begun to investigate this issue in December of 2010, dealing with the investigation of 16 cases occurred in the call that year. The investigation proved the existence of a number of cases of failure of safety which was not reported by the BMW 5 days, and the communications lacked detailed information is important.
A representative of the Commission: "It seems that BMW used to provide little information in their primary."
The report stated: "For example, in the 16 communication that have been achieved out of 573 presented by BMW in 2010, six of which only included the number of vehicles affected by the holidays, which will be called, and in 5 of them only included BMW timetable for the process clouds, and only one of these was the five schedules conform to the specifications required "

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