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It is very uncommon for people to be held criminally responsible for so-called 'statistical murder', which is actually quite common. The case has been made tha
by nickff 11y ago
It is very uncommon for people to be held criminally responsible for so-called 'statistical murder', which is actually quite common. The case has been made that airbags have killed more people than they have saved; should the people who wrote the airbag laws and regulations be put to death?
- usaphp 11y agoWhile I disagree with the original comment - your airbags analogy does not work here, airbags were not created to work around a law, there is a law on emissions and vw deliberately built a workaround to "comply" with a law on tests, but they knew that outside the test facility their cars would violate that law.
- Zigurd 11y agoThe airbag case is extremely complicated. There have been multiple technology generations since airbags were introduced. People can misuse their cars by placing small children in the front seats without two-stage airbags. And on top of all that, some airbag inflators were improperly reformulated with a propellant that apparently breaks down and explodes, with deaths attributed to this flaw.