Well, Dad/admitted GM employee: I see you are at least partly right: the state and federal investigations are targeted mostly at the dealerships that are producing fake recalls.
The article ends with: "The auto industry was already learning how to turn recall lemons into lemonade, but GM under CEO Mary Barra is teaching an advanced seminar on the subject."
added: I wasn't pointing a finger at GM, but you as a GM employee are accomplishing that quite well. I wonder why you chose to drop that part of your ID in later posts.
And I should note that the article was making many points, among them, that cars in general are getting so good, it is getting hard to get people back into the dealership. So maybe this recall thing is just part of the natural evolution of car sales. (my own words/interpretation, since you like to get so technical, Dad.)