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"Take the number of vehicles in the field, (A), and multiply it by the probable rate of failure, (B), then multiply the result by the average out-of- court sett
by jr000 2y ago
"Take the number of vehicles in the field, (A), and multiply it by the probable rate of failure, (B), then multiply the result by the average out-of- court settlement, (C). A times B times C equals X...If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."
- pavel_lishin 2y agoI wonder how many people are on HN who've never seen Fight Club, and thus don't recognize the quote.
- aucisson_masque 2y agoi know it's a fight club quote but man, does a human life has a cost ? young people, mother, father getting butchered by stellantis airbag. And they are not alone, other manufacturer decided to keep it under the rug, like wolkswagen. there is the old saying "an eye for an eye", if each time a mother or a kid died because of these airbags you hanged stellantis director's relative, the world would be a better place.
- simoncion 2y ago> ...does a human life has a cost ? Yep: <https://www.npr.org/2020/04/23/843310123/how-government-agencies-determine-the-dollar-value-of-human-life https://www.npr.org/2020/04/23/843310123/how-government-agen...>. It's hard not to assign a dollar value to a human life when you're trying to do useful large-scale disaster planning.