Kind of embarrassed that I assumed the auto industry was aggressively regulated before Teslas came out.
the nice guys was a documentary
Same here.
Juries have been very good at going "wait, you knew this was a problem and sold the car anyway? Eleventy billion dollars in punitive damages."
i think there's a lot of general rules most of the industry just agreed on so there was no need to actually put them into regulations and then Tesla (& the modern investor class at other companies) came along and decided to ignore those rules
Move fast and break people.
Nope, since Ralph Nader left the States they have done whatever they want. And now they are so big they don’t care what you and I think.
I think they just got sued so often that they got their act together more often than not. Ford pinto style
::raises hand:: Yep, me too. “Actually carmakers *can* build a death trap and regulators can’t stop them” is a helluva thing to internalize. For real, if I ever see a Cybertruck on the road, I am moving far, far away from it.
I know parts of it are- I know the regulations apply to what kinds/quality of plastic you can use, material flammability, etc. I just assumed that included ‘you can’t design a car with zero mechanical safety features.’
look up the history of car headlights, which used to be standardized for easy repairs, and see how even what little design regulation used to exist has been completely eroded