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For sure, it’s reasonable that the airbag vendor, having sold a product to the auto vendor, is liable to the auto vendor. I don’t think the airbag vendor shoul

For sure, it’s reasonable that the airbag vendor, having sold a product to the auto vendor, is liable to the auto vendor. I don’t think the airbag vendor should be separately liable to the user since it’s the auto vendor’s responsibility to ensure that the holistic system works- even without considering the case of open source wherein there’s no contract at all between the OSS “vendor” and either the immediate “buyer” or end customer.

ghaff 4y ago
Takata was sued by various parties (consumer class actions, at least one state) over their airbag defect although I'm not sure what the outcome was over and above the settlement by the various auto makers. People can sue for pretty much anything and there's a good chance you have to (or at least should) get a lawyer if that happens. While it's arguably negligible, there is some risk in putting tools/code out there even if it's free and not warrantied.