Fiat Chrysler is recalling 1.4 million vehicles equipped with certain touchscreen radios to update software for protection against possible cyberattacks, days after two researchers publicly demonstrated their ability to take control of a moving Jeep using its wireless communications systems. (Carlos Osorio, Associated Press file)
Re: “Fiat Chrysler recalls 1.4 million vehicles after Jeep hack,” July 24 Denver West story.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is ordering Fiat Chrysler to recall more than 1 million vehicles to update software for protection against possible cyberattacks. Based on the history of recalls, as many as 500,000 of these vehicles may not be fixed because the NHTSA cannot order that the recalled vehicles are actually fixed. There are estimates that 37 million vehicles with previous safety recalls have not been fixed.
What can be done to get all recalled vehicles off Colorado roads until they are fixed? Gov. John Hickenlooper can work to require the Department of Motor Vehicles to refuse to renew the registration of vehicles with an unfixed recall. (Germany does this and 100 percent of recalled vehicles there are fixed.) The DMV already refuses to renew the registration of vehicles with no insurance.
Don Peterson, Greenwood Village
This letter was published in the Aug. 10 edition.
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