[HN Gopher] Airbag Company Opts Not to Recall 67M Inflators That...
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       Airbag Company Opts Not to Recall 67M Inflators That Could Spew
       Shrapnel
        
       Author : PaulHoule
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2023-05-15 19:05 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.thedrive.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.thedrive.com)
        
       | bitwize wrote:
       | Remember, if the cost of recalling exceeds the expected lawsuit
       | payout, the company won't recall, your safety be damned.
        
         | smt88 wrote:
         | This is not how recalls work in the US (or any developed,
         | Western country that I know of). The regulator, in this case
         | the NHTSA, can issue recalls without the consent of the
         | manufacturer.
         | 
         | In this case, the manufacturer is "working with NHTSA" but
         | publicly pushing back on some of the claims made by the NHTSA's
         | recall demand.
        
           | willcipriano wrote:
           | Do you think the pushback is due to them wanting to do the
           | right thing and they disagree on what that is or because it
           | would cost money and they would prefer to keep it?
           | 
           | Op said "the company won't recall" and to that point he seems
           | completely right here.
        
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