we announced a new position, jeff boyer, vice president of global vehicle safety.ll of this will report to him. he will have additional staff and will have the ability to cut across the organization and will also have the right functional leadership that understands what's going on in the different areas so that's a fix we have already made. and he is operating that way too. >> so when gm received complaints about ignition switches for a number of years, ended up resulting in the redesigned ignition switch in '06, when was it that anyone linked up the ignition switch problems to look at the cobalt's air bags not deploying. was that at about the same time? was that later? what's the time line on that? >> that is something i very much want to understand and know, but, again, this is -- we are doing an investigation that spans over a decade, and it's very important because designing a vehicle is a very complex process, that we get a detailed understanding of exactly what happened because that's the only way we can know that we can fix processes and make sure it never

we have announced a new position, jeff boyer, vice president of global vehicle safety. all of this will report to him. he will have additional staff and will have the ability to cut across the organization and we'll also have the right functional leadership that understands what's going on in the different areas. so that's a fix we have already made and he's operating that way today. operating that way today. >> so when gm received complaints about ignition switches for a number of years, ended up resulting in the redesign ignition switch in 06, when was it that anyone linked up the ignition switch problems to look at the cobalt air bags not deploying? was that about the same time? later? >> that is something i very much want to understand and know. but again, we're doing an investigation that spans over a decade and it's very important because designing a vehicle is a very complex process that we get a detailed understanding of exactly what happened so we can fix processes and make sure it never happens again. >> when was it that gm informed nitsa that a redesign -- di

and i have a copy of gm's march 18 press release announcing jeff boyer as your new vice president of global vehicle safety, and in this press release he's quoted as saying nothing is more important than the safety of our customers and the vehicles they drive. today's gm is committed to this, and i'm ready to take on this assignment. 20 years ago before this hearing and iowa family harmed by another defective gm vehicle gave me this promotional screwdriver set they got from the local gm dealer. and if you look at it, on the outside it has a slogan, safety comes first at gm. so my question for you, and i think the question these families back here wants to know is what's changed at gm? isn't it true that throughout its corporate history gm has represented the driving public safety has always been the number one priority? barra: i cannot speak to statements made in the past, all i can tell you is the way we are working now, we have changed our core values, the decision-making we are leading by example where one of the processes we have made with addition to win the technical community m

jeff boyer's top priority is to quickly identify and resolve any and all product safety issues.is not taking on this task alone. i stand with him and my senior leadership team stands with him as well. we will welcome input from outside of gm, from you, from nitsa, from our customers, your dealer, and current and former employees. the latest round of recalls demonstrates just how serious we are about the way we want to do things at today's gm. we've identified these issues and we've brought them forward and are fixing them. i have asked our team to keep stressing the system at gm and work with one thing in mind, the customer and their safety are at the center of everything we do. our customers who have been affected by this recall are getting our full and undivided attention. we are talking directly to them through a dedicated website with constantly updated information and through social media platforms. we've trained and assigned more people, over 100, to our customer call centers and wait times are down to seconds. and of course we're sending customers written information thro

i have a copy of gm's march 18 rest release announcing jeff boyer as your new vice president of globalehicle safety and he is quoted as saying nothing is more important than the safety of our customers and the vehicles they drive. today's gm is -- has admitted to this and i'm ready to take on the assignment. 20 years ago, before this hearing, i have a family harmed by another defective gm vehicle that gave me this promotional screwdriver set they got from their promotional gm dealer. if you look at it from the outside, it has a slogan. safety comes first at tm. my question for you and the question these families want to know is what has changed that gm? is it true that throughout its corporate history, gm has represented to the driving public that safety has always been their number one priority? >> i cannot speak to the statement made in the past. all i can tell you is the way we are working now, we have changed our core values, the decision-making we are leading, we are leading by example. we of the process changes have made is in addition to when the technical community makes their

we have announced a new position, jeff boyer, vice president of global vehicle safety. all of this will report to him. he will have additional staff and will have the ability to cut across the organization and we'll also have the right functional leadership that understands what's going on in the different areas. so that's a fix we have already made and he's operating that way today. operating that way today. >> so when gm received complaints about ignition switches for a number of years, ended up resulting in the redesign ignition switch in 06, when was it that anyone linked up the ignition switch problems to look at the cobalt air bags not deploying? was that about the same time? later? >> that is something i very much want to understand and know. but again, we're doing an investigation that spans over a decade and it's very important because designing a vehicle is a very complex process that we get a detailed understanding of exactly what happened so we can fix processes and make sure it never happens again. >> when was it that gm informed nitsa that a redesign -- di

jeff boyer's top priority is to quickly identify and resolve any and all product safety issues. he is not taking on this task alone. i stand with him and my senior leadership team stands with him as well. and we will welcome input from outside of gm, from you, from our customers, our dealers, and current and former employees. the latest round of recalls demonstrates just how serious we are about the way we want to do things at today's gm. we've identified these issues, and we've brought them forward and we're fixing them. i have asked our team to keep stressing the system at gm and work with one thing in mind, the customer and their safety are at the center of everything we do. our customers who have been affected by this recall are getting our full and undivided attention. we are talking directly to them through a dedicated website with constantly updated information and through social media platforms. we've trained and assigned more people, over a hundred, to our customer call centers, and wait times are down to seconds. and, of course, we're sending customers written informat

differently than its been run in the past, and i have a copy of gm's march 18th press release announcing jeff boyer as your new vice president of global vehicle safety, and in this press release he is quoted as saying, nothing is more important than the safety of our customers in the vehicles they drive. today's gm is committed to this, and i'm ready to take on this assignment. 20 years ago before this hearing, an iowa family harmed by another defective gm vehicle gave me this promotional screwdriver set that they got from their local gm dealer. and if you look at it, on the outside it has a slogan. safety comes first at gm. so my question for you, and i think the question that these families back here want to know is, what's changed at gm? isn't it true that throughout its corporate history, gm has represented to the driving public that safety has always been their number one priority. >> i can't speak to the statements that were made in the past. all i can tell you is the way we're working now, the training that we've done, we've changed our core values, the decision making we're leading, we're l

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