TV AND MOVIE TOYS

Why don’t automakers build cars that will stay afloat in a river or canal in the event of an accident?

Please don’t tell me it’s about cost. Having that feature on cars would do more to boost sales than the cost of installing the feature. What is wrong with those people? Do they not understand the importance of safety?

Automakers make what people ask for AND what sells.

Once upon a time there were several brand names that floated, but now there is only one … the VW.

Once upon a time there were several brands where getting water into the engine did not cause it to stall.

These brands worked wonderfully as advertised, but very few people bought them. When an auto manufacturer makes some feature, it costs them $. When no one buys into that feature, the auto maker loses big bucks.

Same thing other products.

There used to be home PCs that did not get malware, hackers, spyware, viruses, you name it, because they were built with operating system (other than Windows) and hardware (other than Intel) that was hightly resistant to this nonsense, but they could not compete … the mass public wants
(a) buy the cheapest stuff
(b) looks cool, goes fast
(c) could care less about safety security quality, or the notion that the stuff was made by slave labor in a non-free nation
(d) lots of things to go wrong so we can have fun complaining … life would be so dull if there was nothing to complain about

Given the choice of buying cheap, then paying thru the nose over the life of the product, many times the purchase price

and

buying a little better quality, with almost nothing to pay for maintenance, so that the total lifetime expense is maybe half of what the buy cheap has

the mass public buys cheap and damn the consequences

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