Fiat Chrysler: record sentence for call errors – SPIEGEL ONLINE

The auto giant Fiat Chrysler must because of errors in recall of vehicles pay a record fine to the US government. They would amount to 105 million dollars (95 million euros), informed the Transportation Security Administration NHTSA.

It is the highest penalty that have so far been issued by the authority. The Authority had investigated whether the company had responded belatedly to safety deficiencies. In a hearing, the Authority had the Italian-American automaker accused, among other things, to have its customers not informed about recalls.

In addition to the fine must Fiat Chrysler more than half a million vehicles because of defective components that can lead to a loss of control of the vehicle, to buy back. This requirement is expected to cost the automaker several hundred million dollars. In addition, the Group has set a product approved by the Transportation Security Administration inspector reportedly.

Overall, the Group went through the agreement with the safety authority a line under the litigation because about two dozen controversial callbacks. Fiat Chrysler had recently recalled millions of vehicles because of different deficiencies. So we ordered 1.4 million vehicles in the workshop after it was two hackers managed to control functions of a Jeep Cherokee from afar.