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"If an incremental safety improvement results in higher manufacturing costs, the realized value of the improvement must outweigh those costs." That actually so
by cbr 13y ago
"If an incremental safety improvement results in higher manufacturing costs, the realized value of the improvement must outweigh those costs."
That actually sounds pretty reasonable.
- VLM 13y agoThe real cost is anyone who ever wore an old model helmet who ever got into an accident of any sort will sue them the moment they change to a new model. Picture yourself on the stand at trial trying to explain why you didn't safety recall every model 1 after you released model 2. So did you intentionally design model 1 to be faulty? It'll just be awful. This huge headache has also been an issue for general aviation. The third reason is improvement R+D costs money, and with virtually no protection from Chinese copies, all that money is lost unless you can convince people to pay more for a genuine helmet rather than a cheap copy with the same improvement. You can imagine some poor embattled CEO saying "forget it all, just license this years disney characters, put some yoga pants in the ads, and call it good".
- steelframe 13y agoHow much incremental value would you put on permanent brain injury vs. a mild concussion?