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Remember, if the cost of recalling exceeds the expected lawsuit payout, the company won't recall, your safety be damned.

• smt88 4y ago
  This is not how recalls work in the US (or any developed, Western country that I know of). The regulator, in this case the NHTSA, can issue recalls without the consent of the manufacturer. In this case, the manufacturer is "working with NHTSA" but publicly pushing back on some of the claims made by the NHTSA's recall demand.
  • willcipriano 4y ago
    Do you think the pushback is due to them wanting to do the right thing and they disagree on what that is or because it would cost money and they would prefer to keep it? Op said "the company won't recall" and to that point he seems completely right here.
    • smt88 4y ago
      I don't think "the right thing" is as black-and-white here as it is in other recalls. The article mentions several confounding factors: - the airbags were manufactured in different locations over the course of 18 years, making it difficult to say that 100% of them need to be recalled - it's not easy to prove what caused the issue in the first place - the vehicle manufacturer should probably be the party responsible for the recall, not the airbag manufacturer (based on US law, not based on common sense) So fighting this is certainly a self-interest of the airbag company, but it's not necessarily baseless.
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