it is. it s like having a go-pro. that camera, for your corvette. they are talking about social media. can you imagine people posting it all over social media. great pictures of me doing burnouts and donuts in parking lots. we won t tell. this beauty here. we ve got to talk about it. this is a 1963 corvette stingray. this thing was fuel injected, 360 horsepower v-8 engine. just a beauty. this is the first time that they offered air conditioning. power brakes and power steering as an option. take a look. the only gear, the 1963 had the split window in the back. isn t that cool. it is. they were telling me drivers were complaining that it was like a blind spot. you couldn t quite see out of it. i m sure. that was the only thing. it s artistic like these class ins are. beautiful to look at it. so cool to look at. in a car like that you don t need to see behind you.
reporter: the valukas report. an employee who hides or doesn t share information a cover-up? the individual knows, for instance, the information is a safety information and understands that and deliberately decides to conceal that, that s a cover-up, yes. reporter: gm, instead, termed the ignition switch with power brakes air bags all in motion, after coming undone and restarting it. that would be hard for a 16-year-old driver to even think of with an 18-wheeler bearing down on them. reporter: asked how it s changing its culture, barra said 15 managers have been fired and more have been hired. it s a way of changing the way we think at general motors. gm is also being changed by a
officials say right now everything is calm. general motors ceo is being grilled by a senate panel again today. mary barra has acknowledged that gm knew about ignition problems as early as 2001. the problem could cut off the engine and deactivate air bags, power steering and power brakes. the issue has been linked to 13 deaths. barra stressed that gm is now a new company. it does things differently than the old gm. but senator ed markey of massachusetts had some very harsh words. i am he very troubled you are not willing to commit the ending this culture of secrecy at general motor. i didn t say that. yes, you have. and i know this. i have tried year after year for more than ten years to have legislation passed that would require the disclosure of all of this information. and it was the automobile industry that killed my
switch versus the switches which were in the 2005 to 2007 chevrolet cobalts which i examined. 1.6 millimeter is approximately the thickness of a quarter. what that shorter plunger does is it does not exert enough force to hold it in the run position. as a result, it can switch out and that disabled a lot of electronic systems including the airbags, is that right? that s correct. airbags, the power steering and power brakes. you went to the junk yard. in your opinion, if this was changed, they had to know why they were changing it, right? well, that s correct. and there were there are indications early on, at least with the launch of the 2005
those killed in crashes have spoken out. that s right. general motors said 31 crashes have been blamed on defective switches. earlier a stepfather of a young woman killed in a 2006 crash shared their heartbreaking story. what was to be a simple shopping excursion turned into a death trap as the vehicle without warning lost power. steering wheel locked, power brakes no longer worked and safety airbags were turned off. when all of this happened, the car followed a path off the road, went airborne over an adjoining driveway, crushed a phone box and tragically collided with a group of trees. we do expect to hear an apology from mary barra, the new ceo as she tries to regain the confidence of lawmakers and american drivers. gretchen. mike, what have we learned from key lawmakers ahead of this hearing? definitely bipartisan outrage