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Originally Posted by axiomatik
That said, I think there should be allowances for small, niche manufacturers. It would be great to have a cottage industry of small sports car makers like in Britain. Allow small companies to sell cars without airbags or crash tests, but require them to be plastered with large disclaimers letting the buyer know the risks they are taking. These kinds of exemptions would only apply to manufacturers who build less than 100 or 200 cars a year, for example.
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We shouldn't even need the disclaimers. Lawyers f'd up the western world. Back in the old days, if you smashed a car into some children, it was your fault, not Toyota's.
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Originally Posted by kingkilburn
Safety should NEVER be compromised to make a product cheaper. If you want to lower the cost of entry in the auto industry pay unskilled laborers less than three times federal minimum wage or pay executives less than tens of millions.
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Safety standards keep getting higher due to stupid people. There is no reason we need to have airbags at all if people knew how to drive. So glad they have the 'no texting, eating, talking on phone' while you drive law here where I live. Its one of the few that makes sense.
Truth be told, the next generation of drivers doesn't care about driving as much. They want cheap reliable transporation.... so let the little guy build cars the size of smart cars that are Ipod connected voice controlled little computers that don't go over 40mph because they are wireless ECU limited by proximity to the city they are in. DONE, I just saved the USA auto mfg.