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Originally Posted by Superman09
Why do we need the government to babysit us? The best solution for this kind of thing is for the government to stay the hell out of the way. The government can't do anything about this. What is the government going to do, mandate that as soon as a problem is found in ONE car you issue a recall for every car in the model line? Seriously if the government gets involved in every little freaking problem your 35K Camaro will eventually cost well over 100K. Why you ask will the price go up so much, simple car companies will not eat the cost of potentially recalling every mass produced automobile and will simple build that potential cost into the price of every car. So with hundreds of thousands of parts on any given car times hundreds of thousands of dollars in recall expenses your average car will be astronomically unaffordable by anybody and every car manufacturer will go out of business. Now is getting the government involved in this really such a good idea?
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The governments role is to protect the people(you know for the people, by the people etc). Businesses have one focus and that is to make money. If they know no one is watching they will take every short cut they can get away with. They cant sell lots of $100,000 cars so they need to make $30,000 cars. So how does government oversight pay off? Well if you take GM which will have over 11 million sales in North America and you have the guys with the MBA's asking the engineers where to cut costs. They listen when the engineer says "well going with the lower cost metal in the axle might save 50 cents per car but there is a high risk of failure" The MBA guy now does some bean counting and decides which is more costly. Folow the engineers advice and spend that extra 5.5 million or gamble with law suites and recalls. Law suites dont worry them much these days because they are settled out of court with non-disclosure binders. This makes it harder for the next person who has someone die to build a case. If you have government oversight then you have pressure that helps the MBA's make the right choice.
Who do you trust to look out for your best interests? The government of the people, by the people or the business of the dollar, for the dollar?