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Re:Tesla Model X owners finding car doors won’t shut, window... by qaq on Thursday April 21, 2016 @12:00AM (#11539593)
Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one. (Fight Club)
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Re:Tesla Model X owners finding car doors won’t shut, window... by rangibaby on Thursday April 21, 2016 @09:11AM (#11541798)
It's actually a paraphrasing of the Ivey (GM) and Grush-Saunby reports (Ford) from the 1970s. This was several years after Ralph Nader's famous book, Unsafe at Any Speed (1965)

1. http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/tortsprof/files/FordMemo.pd...

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed

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