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Originally Posted by McRat
GM is being fined because all key type ignition systems fail when you try and destroy them. It's not if, it's when. Any lock will fail given enough time and load.
GM simply did not see a 0.01% defect rate as being a game changer. 0.01% is a WildAssGuess. The real failure level is probably a lot lower.
In the last 15 years, GM sold about 60 million cars and trucks in the US with key ignitions. If 0.01% (1 per 10,000) failed and caused death, that would be 6,000 deaths.
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your failing to take into account the ones that failed but didnt cause a death, thats all thats being talked about, who knows how many failed and left people on the side of the road or in the middle of traffic? who thought it was a normal failure and payed to fix , etc who arent counted.