The e-commerce behemoth Amazon.com Inc. announced on Friday that it is working to remove products that disable car seatbelt alarms from marketplace listings in the United States and the United Kingdom, one day after the company did the same in India.
According to Amazon, it was investigating these products across all marketplaces and would take appropriate action.
"We are in the process of removing the products in question that may have missed our controls," a company spokesperson said.
After business tycoon Cyrus Mistry was killed in a car accident last weekend, road safety concerns have received increased attention in India. The fourth-largest automobile market in the world experienced a resurgence of the road safety debate after local media revealed that Mistry was not using a seat belt. View More
Nitin Gadkari, India's transport minister, told Reuters on Wednesday that metal clips purchased from Amazon were inserted in seatbelt slots to get around the alarm that usually keeps going off when seatbelts aren't being worn while a car is being driven. Gadkari added that he had asked the business to take action against such devices. A day later, Amazon announced that the products had been removed from its platform.
(Source:www.usnews.com)
According to Amazon, it was investigating these products across all marketplaces and would take appropriate action.
"We are in the process of removing the products in question that may have missed our controls," a company spokesperson said.
After business tycoon Cyrus Mistry was killed in a car accident last weekend, road safety concerns have received increased attention in India. The fourth-largest automobile market in the world experienced a resurgence of the road safety debate after local media revealed that Mistry was not using a seat belt. View More
Nitin Gadkari, India's transport minister, told Reuters on Wednesday that metal clips purchased from Amazon were inserted in seatbelt slots to get around the alarm that usually keeps going off when seatbelts aren't being worn while a car is being driven. Gadkari added that he had asked the business to take action against such devices. A day later, Amazon announced that the products had been removed from its platform.
(Source:www.usnews.com)
