The Motor Vehicle Safety Act

Dowie: Ford was caught red-handed with one of these, submitted in the public record. He had to kind of calculate whether or not it was worth taking a recall. Dowie: So they estimated like 180 fatalities and 180 injuries in car fires every year in the US. And they said, well, that would cost society $49 million in lost productivity. But if you want us to do this $11 per car safety improvement that would save those lives and those injuries, well, it cost us the auto industry $113 million. Just made it as straight up $200,000. See it, racquetball Ted? Remember Edward Norton's job? That was kind of