On 28 May 2021 at 21:08, Mark Hanson via EV wrote: > All manufacturing companies are constantly reducing costs, maximizing profits.
Right. And when those cost reductions make the product less safe, the long term cost can end up being much higher. And that's just the economic cost. The human cost is another matter entirely. It was cheaper for Ford to pay legal judgements for dead and burned Pinto passengers than to fix the car's gas tank design. Anybody here want to argue that that was an ethical choice? Not that I'm actually drawing an analogy between Tesla's possible hobbling of their autopilot and Ford's Pinto debacle yet. Let's see what happens. David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals, and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation. -- Johnny Hart = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
