🚩 Red flags wiki

Firestone

🚩 A specific set of Firestone tires proved to be prone to tread separation, which caused several accidents and deaths.
- Sources: en.wikipedia.org
- Defense: They say that Ford recommended the wrong tire pressure and that the vehicles the tires were mounted on were particularly prone to rollovers

🚩 Hyundai is accused of illegally employing children in Alabama (either directly in a Hyundai-owned supplier or benefiting from the practice in other suppliers, partially with the help of temporary work agencies), of which most were refugees from Central America, of which some were threatened with deportation
- Sources: en.wikipedia.org, www.reuters.com (initial report), www.reuters.com (follow-up about investigation and consequences)
- Defense: They deny the allegation that they knowingly employed anyone who is ineligible for employment, saying they rely on temporary work agencies to fill jobs and expect these agencies to follow the law in recruiting, hiring, and placing workers on their premises. They're divesting their controlling stake of one of the suppliers.

🚩 Toyota had to recall cars that had defects causing unintended acceleration
- Sources: en.wikipedia.org

🚩 VW cheated on emissions tests by detecting when the car was being tested and temporarily changing the engine's behavior to pass the test. In normal operation the engine would emit up to 40 times the allowed amount of nitrogen oxides. (A.k.a. "Dieselgate")
- Sources: en.wikipedia.org