The comment I made at the time was in reference to holding the vehicle manufacturers criminally and administratively responsible for the actions of a business person we have no control over. The recommendation, then and now, would tend to provide a little more formality and strength to the message we would want to send to dealers who may be thinking about the retail sale of a vehicle subject to what we call a “stop-sale order”. We would still recommend that. We do that as manufacturers now, but if we were going to be held criminally responsible, we don't think that would be appropriate or fair to us. That's why we provided some additional language about this in our written submission.
On September 28th, 2017. See this statement in context.