ALBANY, NY United States Senator Charles Schumer of New York, said that he to stop a law not introduces car rentals from rental of cars, which include callbacks for problems which still fixed.
Would the industry proposed, this month held a two tier system in the cars off the road if the recall involved serious security problems. Callbacks as less seriously would as soon as possible be corrected, but the cars would not "grounded be" until then, according to the proposal by the American car rental Association.
"Rental car agencies appear more interest to reap profit from vehicles on the road keep in mind, then they do with ensuring the safety of persons and families who drive their cars," Schumer said Monday before his announcement.
Schumer said that the law due to the heavy crashes is required in the last few years with car rental in callbacks. Car rental must be maintained to the same standard as automotive of dealerships, he said, that does not rent cars for the extension of the duration identified resolves to a problem in a callback.
The American car rental Association said its two tier system would make sure that unsafe cars are rented not but also would not keep unnecessary cars off the road. The Association said that neither manufacturer nor the national highway traffic safety clear direction is administration where reminds a serious risk that must be fixed, before operating a car can be.
"Currently all vehicle owners, rental companies, including must decide whether, furthermore vehicles based a callback on the information provided by the manufacturer and NHTSA in the note in the callback,", the Association said on your site.
Schumer said all reminded that vehicles should be fixed by the road until they are.
"The latest proposal by car rental companies to create a vague double standard that some recalled cars as safe and other dangerous defined their responsibility, safety of consumers, can these companies avoid" Schumer said.
Schumer said a consumer of a car, rented in contrast to a private owner is not notified, that is the car under callback.
An Association spokesman reacted Sunday to a request for comment.
"We can determine the importance of a recall and whether a vehicle is no longer reliable or whether it can continue to run and then should just be for service at some point in time," said Association's Bob Barton the New York Times in April in lobbying for a two-tier system.
"We want to be simply grounded manufacturers to instruct us when a vehicle must, and we will absolutely offspring," said Barton.
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