In message , Stuf4
writes

Imagine a car company that does a study and determines that it is too
expensive to build a vehicle with airbags and even seatbelts, and that
the performance of that vehicle will be degraded by this safety
equipment. So they build it. And there is a long line of people who
still want to buy it and drive it. When those vehicles crash (and
they will crash) and their occupants take their final ride through the
front windshield, I can guarantee you that the NTSB would hold that
car company accountable for willful negligence.

I don't think we have to imagine this. Wasn't there a car where they
decided that including safety features (not legally mandatory but
desirable) would cost more than the compensation they would pay if one
crashed? They were silly enough to put it in writing, too.
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"Forty millions of miles it was from us, more than forty millions of miles of
void"