Fiat Chrysler announced on Friday the recall of its 1.1 million vehicles that rolls away unforeseen and create affliction when the transmission is not used correctly adding to the flood of recent safety actions by automakers. The recall was prompted after the reported 41 injuries associated with the transmission issues.
The total number of safety recall is improbably to counterpart more than 60 million vehicles set in 2014 after recall of millions of small cars by General Motors due to its faulty ignitions that linked to 124 deaths. But the total stride of recalls so far in 2016 surpasses the figure in a typical year before the General Motors difficult situation, as reported by The New York Times.
The recall includes the 2012-2014 Dodge Charger and Chrysler 300 sedans and the 2014-2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee SUVs. In the U.S., almost 811,000 vehicles are affected, with 52,000 in Canada, about 17,000 in Mexico and almost 250,000 outside North America.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which upgraded its probe into the issue in February, said Friday that its "investigation of the shifter in these vehicles showed it is clearly a safety issue that has led to hundreds of crashes and dozens of injuries.", based on The Washington Post report.
The cause of the recall is due to the gear shift design that makes it difficult to determine on what state the gear is at present. Compared to most gear selectors that are usually in forward or backward positions based on whether the car is in Park, Reverse, Neutral or Drive, the gear selector in these vehicles are generally upright. When the driver moves it forward or back to select a gear, it goes back to its original upright position.
According to CNNMoney, Chrysler will remedy the problem by improving the warnings and change how the gear selector works. The changes will automatically avoid the vehicle from moving under certain conditions even if the driver doesn't select Park. The automaker will notify car owners and will do the repairs at no cost.
Spokesman Bryan of NHTSA said that the agency will carefully monitor the recall to make sure that Fiat Chrysler creates a safe solution and remedies the vehicles in less than possible time.
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