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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 08:45:26 -0500
From: "Walt Kienzle" <wkienzlenopsam.net>
Subject: Re: 9-5 Passenger Airbag - how to disable?


Actually, the liability problem is when the car with the disabled airbag is sold to an unsuspecting buyer. The seller might not happen to mention that the airbag is disabled, particularly if the car is brokered through an auction to a used car dealer and the person that had the airbag disabled is now unknown. Even the Airbag light might have been disabled. The new buyer expects the airbags in the car to work, but they don't. Was it a malfunction where the car manufacturer is liable? Providing a steering wheel that can be used incorrectly to go over the edge of the cliff has not yet been determined to be a manufacturers liability. Providing a device that doesn't work when it should is a different issue, particularly when it is billed as a safety device. How do you find out who is at fault? The lawyers spring into action to sort it all out. The car manufacturer most easily identified and is the most likely one to be blamed - unless they can prove that they are not at fault. Walt Kienzle 1991 9000T "Wojciech Setlak" <wsetlaknopsamspringer.com.pl> wrote in message news:3E95837C.198432A2nopsamspringer.com.pl... > davehinznopsamcop.net wrote: > > > > Well, in that case it's Jeep taking on the liability, > > I don't get it. There is a pedal in any car that enables the owner to > accelerate it to dangerous speed and even a steering wheel that can be > used to direct the vehicle towards the opposite traffic or over the edge > of the road in mountains. Yet the manufacturer is to be held liable not > for these devices, which are directly putting the persons in the car in > real danger, but for some button that decreases their safety just in > some cases. > > :P > > -- > Regards, Wojciech Setlak

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