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Why must it? Why not have they work only with 80% reliability if it could lower the price and put it in the hands of way more people?
by jessriedel 6y ago
Why must it? Why not have they work only with 80% reliability if it could lower the price and put it in the hands of way more people?
- squarefoot 6y agoBecause if it had 80% reliability it wouldn't be a safety device at all. Think of cars, would you buy at a very discounted price a car whose brakes would fail 2 times out of 10? Different contexts, I know, but when safety is a must price doesn't matter much.
- perl4ever 6y agoWhen I think of cars and safety, I think of Takata airbags.
- jessriedel 6y agoI encourage you to be more quantitative. We trade money for safety constantly. Every time you drive your car to work you do so, and likewise every time you buy a small car. As of a decade ago, incorrect airbag deployment killed one person for ever 7 lives it saved. Nonetheless, they were mandated by law for many classes of cars, and were purchased voluntarily for others. And this was the right decision. They could have spent thousands of dollars per unit to get the mistake rate even lower, but that wouldn't have been worth the money.