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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 settlement, (C). A times B times C equals X...If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."

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i 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.

> ...does a human life has a cost ?

Yep: <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.

I wonder how many people are on HN who've never seen Fight Club, and thus don't recognize the quote.

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