DETROIT - General Motors' (GM) deadly ignition switch flaws emerged from an effort to improve its cars. As the company began developing new small cars in the late 1990s, it listened to customers who ...

In February, General Motors issued sweeping recalls for several models suspected of having a faulty switch that automatically turns the car's engine off and prevents air bags from deploying — while ...

GM’s ignition-switch recall may have reached new heights Thursday, with one auto-safety group declaring that 303 people have died as a result of airbags failing to deploy in two of the six cars ...

General Motors Co. CEO Mary Barra last week regarding the delayed recall of millions of vehicles due to faulty ignition switches were released Friday afternoon The documents, released by the House ...

General Motors recently issued a recall for several different models due to an ignition switch issue similar to the one that plagued 2.7 million of its small cars and resulted in the deaths of 13 ...

For several weeks, CBS News has been reporting on its investigation into a General Motors recall. At least 13 people have died in accidents linked to an ignition-switch defect. CBS News' reporting ...

Do you remember Raymond DeGiorgio? He was the General Motors engineer who was directly involved with the faulty ignition switches, and ultimately the whipping boy for the ignition switch recall having ...

Newly released internal GM documents reveal that the company in 2001 considered -- and rejected – an ignition switch design that two prominent safety advocates say could have avoided the problem that ...

An internal document obtained by NBC News shows that a General Motors engineer signed off on a change to ignition switches in cars that have now been recalled – even though he testified last year that ...

In his report, Feinberg also linked the ignition switches to 275 injuries, the vast majority of which were minor injuries requiring hospitalization or outpatient treatment within 48 hours of an ...

The new head of General Motors, Mary Barra, goes to Capitol Hill Tuesday to begin two days of testimony. It's the first time she'll be questioned about a safety defect that's been linked to at least ...

More than 10 years after the defect was detected, General Motors issued recalls for several models suspected of having a faulty switch. The... In February, General Motors issued sweeping recalls for ...