NHTSA Chief Calls Toyota’s Quick Action on Brake Fluid Recall “Fantastic”

David Strickland, head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has singled out Toyota this week for improvements on safety matters and its quick action on Wednesday’s brake fluid recall. During an interview with The Detroit News, Strickland citied a change in how Toyota approaches defects and said the automaker is “working very hard to be a better company going forward.” Separately, Strickland told Bloomberg that Toyota found the brake-fluid flaw on its own with no prompting from NHTSA, adding, “They notified the agency [NHTSA] as soon as they knew, which is fantastic, and they took affirmative action, which is the right thing to do.”

Strickland also praised all automakers for moving faster on recalls. According to The Detroit News, automakers have recalled about 15 million vehicles in about 500 separate campaigns this year, a number that’s on pace to hit the highest number of vehicles called back since 2005.

To read The Detroit News article, please visit:
http://www.detnews.com/article/20101022/AUTO01/10220361/1148/Auto-recall-speed-praised.

To read the Bloomberg story, please click on:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/toyota-recalls-1-53-million-vehicles-worldwide-for-brake-fluid-problem.html

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