Only 16 mil?
Toyota fined $16.4M, accused of hiding defect
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration today fined Toyota $16.4 million for a four-month delay in announcing defective accelerator pedals in 2.3 million vehicles that could trigger sudden acceleration – and warned that more could be coming.
The fine, the largest ever levied by U.S. auto safety regulators against an automaker, forces Toyota to either accept a government judgment that it ignored U.S. consumer complaints of a safety problem or fight a high-profile court battle with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The world’s largest automaker declined to say what its next step would be.</em>
That’s it? Possibly killing people by inaction and deception, and they get fined an amount they can pay out of petty cash? Bullshit.
