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FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2014 file photo, David Friedman, the acting administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, testifies at the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Insurance, on Capitol Hill in Washington. A showdown is looming between U.S. safety regulators and a Japanese company that makes air bags linked to multiple deaths and injuries. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

Showdown looms between US gov’t, air bag maker

By Tom Krisher - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows a crash test of a 2002 Honda CR-V, one of the models subject to a recall to repair faulty air bags. In a letter delivered Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Ed Markey, D-Mass., are calling on regulators to issue a nationwide recall of cars with faulty air bags made by Takata Corp., questioning why automakers have been allowed to limit recalls to only certain locations with high humidity. (AP Photo/Insurance Institute for Highway Safety)

Gov’t pushes air bag maker on replacement parts

By Tom Krisher - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows a crash test of a 2003 Toyota Corolla, one of the models subject to a recall to repair faulty air bags. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is warning 7.8 million car owners that inflator mechanisms in the air bags can rupture, causing metal fragments to fly out when the bags are deployed. (AP Photo/Insurance Institute for Highway Safety)

US official: Auto safety agency under review

By Joan Lowy - Associated Press

FILE - This Feb. 3, 2010 file photo shows a palm tree behind a Toyota sign at Earl Stewart Toyota in North Palm Beach, Fla. Toyota is recalling 247,000 vehicles in high-humidity areas as an air bag problem that has plagued most of the auto industry continues to widen. The recall covers vehicles in South Florida, along the Gulf Coast, in Puerto Rico, Hawaii, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, Saipan and American Samoa. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

US agency warns car owners to get air bags fixed

By TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

This taken on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014 photo and provided by the Fontana (Calif.) Police Department on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014, shows a stolen 2014 Ferrari 458 Spider. The Riverside Press-Enterprise reported that Fontana Police arrested Earnie Hooks, of Los Angeles, for stealing the same Ferrari, twice. Court records say he’s pleaded not guilty to car theft and resisting police. (AP Photo/Fontana Police Department)

EDITORIAL: Making war on supercars

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

FILE - This April 1, 2014 file photo shows David Friedman, the acting head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, as he testified on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration should have discovered General Motors’ faulty ignition switches seven years before the company recalled 2.6 million cars to fix the deadly problem, a House committee majority charged Tuesday in a new report. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

House panel: Safety agency mishandled GM recall

By JOAN LOWY and TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

Government fine hardly the end of GM recall saga

By TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

In this Oct. 24, 2006 photo provided by the St. Croix County Sheriff's Office, police investigate the wreckage of a 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt that crashed in St. Croix County, killing Natasha Weigel, 18, and Amy Lynn Rademaker, 15, and injuring the 17-year-old driver, Megan Ungar-Kerns. The vehicle's ignition was found in the “accessory” position and the air bags didn’t deploy. General Motors’ recent recall of 2.6 million small cars, including the 2005 Cobalt, has shed light on an unsettling fact: Air bags might not always deploy when drivers _ and federal regulators _ expect them to. (AP Photo/St. Croix County Sheriff's Office)

Drivers beware: Your air bag may not deploy

By DEE-ANN DURBIN - Associated Press

This April 1, 2014, file photo shows a key in the ignition switch of a 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt in Alexandria, Va. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)

Government says no need to park recalled GM cars

By TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

This Sunday, Nov. 19, 2006 photo shows unsold 2006 Ion coupes outside a Saturn dealership in the south Denver suburb of Highlands Ranch, Colo. According to government documents released Saturday, April 19, 2014, General Motors waited years to recall nearly 335,000 small cars for power steering failures despite getting thousands of consumer complaints and more than 30,000 warranty repair claims. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the government’s auto safety watchdog, didn’t seek a recall of the Saturn Ion compact car from the 2004 through 2007 model years even though it opened an investigation more than two years ago, and even though it found 12 crashes and two injuries caused by the problem. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Documents detail another delayed GM recall

By TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

US agency closes probe into Ford pickup trucks

Associated Press

Glenn County Sheriff's officers walk past the remains of a tour bus that was struck by a FedEx truck on Interstate 5 Thursday in Orland, Calif., Friday, April 11, 2014. At least ten people were killed and dozens injured in the fiery crash between the truck and a bus carrying high school students on a visit to a Northern California College. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Rules lag to help passengers escape crashed buses

By JOAN LOWY - Associated Press

Gov’t: GM missed deadline for faulty switch data

By TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

Major events in GM’s recall of 2.6M small cars

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

** FILE ** This photo taken Jan. 23, 2014, shows General Motors CEO Mary Barra addressing the media during a roundtable meeting with journalists in Detroit. Barra will be asked by two congressional subcommittees why it took GM a decade to recall cars with faulty ignition switches that the company says are now linked to 13 deaths. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

GM, safety agency face Congress over recalls

By TOM KRISHER and DEE-ANN DURBIN - Associated Press

Auto safety chief says GM didn’t share key data

Associated Press

Congress: GM twice failed to fix defect

By DEE-ANN DURBIN - Associated Press

This undated image taken from video shows the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ( NHTSA) crash test of a 2005 General Motors Cobalt. For years, the U.S. government’s auto safety watchdog sent form letters to worried owners of the Chevrolet Cobalt and other General Motors small cars, saying it didn’t have enough information about problems with unexpected stalling to establish a trend or open an investigation, however an Associated Press review released Friday, March, 28, 2014, of complaints to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shows that over a nine-year period, 164 drivers reported that their 2005-2007 Chevrolet Cobalts stalled without warning (AP Photo/NHTSA)

AP IMPACT: Gov’t safety agency missed Cobalt clues

By TOM KRISHER and DEE-ANN DURBIN - Associated Press

Customers check out a new Tesla all electric car, Monday, March 17, 2014, at a Tesla showroom inside the Kenwood Towne Centre in Cincinnati. Ohio auto dealers are sparring at the Statehouse with the California-based Tesla, which is selling it's next generation electric cars from three Ohio storefronts. Lawmakers in Ohio and other states are trying to block Tesla direct sales on grounds they undercut traditional auto dealerships. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

Feds close investigation of Tesla battery fires

Associated Press

This undated image taken from video shows the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ( NHTSA) crash test of a 2005 General Motors Cobalt. For years, the U.S. government’s auto safety watchdog sent form letters to worried owners of the Chevrolet Cobalt and other General Motors small cars, saying it didn’t have enough information about problems with unexpected stalling to establish a trend or open an investigation, however an Associated Press review released Friday, March, 28, 2014, of complaints to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shows that over a nine-year period, 164 drivers reported that their 2005-2007 Chevrolet Cobalts stalled without warning (AP Photo/NHTSA)

AP IMPACT: Gov’t safety agency missed Cobalt clues

By TOM KRISHER and DEE-ANN DURBIN - Associated Press