Last month, I wrote about the safety that the American consumer has seen with changes that have been forced on the auto industry as the result of an affective tort system.
Why Are Cars Safer?,Mike Bryant | May 14, 2010 10:00 AM
A solid example of why a strong tort system makes products safer by holding companies that don’t produce safe products responsible for the damage they create.
I then came upon a story about the governmental effort to make safer cars:
How The U.S. Government Killed The Safest Car Ever Built
It’s an interesting story of how politics and corporate interests were able to derail safety efforts. This comparison lays out the options for the consumer. What keeps them safest?
– Counting on the free market and corporations doing the right thing?
– Government regulation which is dependent on what the present administration cares about?
– A strong and fair civil justice system that allows people who have been injured the chance to take the most powerful company in front of a jury?
I think there should be a combination. But, with a goal toward long term product safety we have to have an unrestricted tort system to protect people when the first two fail.
