mirrors

You take the population of vehicles in the field (A) and
multiply it by the probable rate of failure (B), multiply the
result by the average cost of an out-of-court settlement (C).
A times B times C equals X.
If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.


page 30, Fight Club, Chuck Pahlanuik, fiction

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500 fatalities X $200,000/fatalities
---------------------------------------- = $2.40/automobiles
41,000,000 automobiles

The cost to General Motors of ensuring that fuel tanks did
not explode in crashes, estimated by the company to be $8.59
per automobile, meant the company could save $6.19($8.59 minus
$2.40) per automobile if it allowed people to die in fuel-fed
fires than alter the design of vehicles to avoid such fires


Page 63, The Corporation, Joel Bakan, non-fiction

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I didn't say it would be easy, Neo