Cowabunga
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So you are telling me, that if you purchased a car, and it developed a fault of the kind described earlier in this thread, the manufacturer would not want to know?
If the machine had a fault of that nature, and an accident resulted, the HSE would be notified immediately in almost any other industry, probably even if it resulted in only a near miss. I certainly would not want to be in a position of responsibility with that on my conscience.
Well actually cars break down all the time, even in the fast lane of motorways. I've actually seen them with my own eyes. HSE or VOSA or whoever only really get involved to do recalls after there have been a few hundred similar examples and maybe two or three deaths. That's the reality of it.
Just think of those Tanaca airbags which grenade and can actually kill with shrapnel. Yes, there's a recall of millions of them, but its been going on for years and they still haven't finished and they certainly haven't stopped people using the cars fitted with them. Same goes for those Vauxhall and Ford cars that spontaneously combust.