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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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more I think about it the less i like this argument. Percentages is exactly the problem I have with this. i dont care if it was infinitesimal compared to quantity sold, 1 death is to much.
Should we not bother to tell Gerber they need to not sell baby food that has broken glass in it? i mean of the millions of babies who eat gerber food, what percentage die from the broken glass? i mean really, isn't life worth less than a 1% increase in the bottom line?
I mean no one can be perfect, every single item sold has a potentially death causing defect right? I fully expect my keyboard to break in half and send shards of plastic into my brain any second now.
I don't expect products to be perfect, i do expect products that can kill me to be fully free of defects that could cause my death to the best of the sellers knowledge. And as soon as the seller of that product knows about any defect that could cause injury or death, they need to immediately take steps to correct and warn me about the potential issue. None of which GM did in this case.