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After VW was outed for falsifying environmental data in its cars hundreds of thousand of VW vehicles were taken off the road now sitting in storage sites. Hundreds of thousands of cars now lie in lots in the Mojave Desert, a shuttered suburban Detroit football stadium, and a former Minnesota paper mill in America alone. These vehicles are now in the open slowly breaking down with pollutants entering the environment. Is the the modern cost of corporate greed? What can we do to ensure this never happens again?
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Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards
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(Score: 4, Informative) by AthanasiusKircher on Sunday December 09 2018, @02:56AM
Well by no means should you allow pesky facts to get in the way of your "opinion."
The long quotation you provided in a previous post states that manufacturers were mostly providing belts by 1962 or 1963, while the federal government didn't mandate them until later. Thus, I guess, your "opinion" is that manufacturers adopted then with no government prodding.
Except your source conveniently omits the fact that states started mandating them in 1961. By 1962, six states mandated them, and over the course of 1963, that grew to 23 states. At that point, it no longer made sense for manufacturers to insist on keeping them "optional" to try to create distinctions between markets to save a few bucks.
Perhaps manufacturers would have eventually adopted them as standard anyway (and some manufacturers were headed in that direction), but claiming government pressure had no role here is simply factually wrong... Regardless of your "opinion."