C’mon you knee jerkers, just give you the Michael Moore hot button and you totally bail on the actual issue Moore brings up- corporate responsibility for their fkuc ups. Jeffrey Dahmer kills a half dozen people and he gets the clank hotel and a jailhouse assassination. CEO of Profit Line, Inc. kills a dozen people and gets a new yacht and a golden parachute. Something wrong with this and you know it.
I agree. Anyone who knew that those cars could kill people is an accessory to the deaths. There's no room for thinking which allows an "acceptable level of risk" to protect the business.
It's GM in this case that justified Michael Moore's always-extreme stance about corporate evil.
I am sorry, but this is not JUST caused by a faulty ignition switch.
All the ignition switch problems were caused by people who had too much weight on their key chain or people who ride the steering wheel with their knees hitting the ignition switch. When you hit the steering wheel or the keys pull enough, the car switches to the “accessories” position, killing the engine and losing power assist; the steering wheel was still moveable and the brakes still worked! The deaths were caused because people do not know how to drive cars without power steering and power brakes!
The first death in this entire situation was a woman not wearing her seatbelt, somehow caused the ignition switch to turn to the “accessories” position (which also turns off the airbags), lost control of her car (which it is my understanding from Driver’s Ed you must ALWAYS maintain control of your vehicle) and wrecked!
I am sorry for the loss of her life, but what if she had ran out of gas? Wouldn’t she lose power steering and power brakes? If she wrecked because she lost control of her vehicle due to running out of gas, would that death be less important to her family? Of course, because they couldn’t blame it on GM and they couldn’t get a large cash settlement from them?