A few grand to dig it out of a wall? A few hundo to slap some lead shielding over it (it is an X-ray source after all)?

In any case the primary expense is going to be one of paying off all the people to get the right approvals. Crunching the numbers on how to safely rectify it and actually going through those actions will be dirt cheap compared to getting someone with the "right credentials" to tell the government, the insurers and whoever else that your obvious solution any highschooler can crunch the numbers on is in fact acceptable

I think finding it is the expensive part.

It pretty much broadcasts its location if you wave the right instrumentation around.

You "just" need to wave that instrument over 1400km of highway, potentially with a 100m+ width if the capsule has been kicked some distance away by a truck tyre.

I’m trying to imagine the scale of this. I guess it depends on how close you have to be to pick up the signal. And how many false signals there might be.

I was talking about the "gets concreted into a wall" case.

Did you work at Ford as an executive during the Pinto era?

I insist they are safe at any speed so long as you keep their gas tanks empty!

It seems the pinto narrative was framed in way to make it look worse but compared to other cars of similar type it wasn’t all that bad[1]. This exaggerated narrative despite vindicating data is perpetuated in biz ethics.

[1] https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2017/10/17/misunderstood-ca...

Yup. The lesson to be learned once you dig into it is "if you're doing some industry standard thing that someone could ever potentially portray as seedy definitely don't document it".