[laythea]

The car industry is not as advanced as the aviation industry. It will come a time, where the level of complexity of a car means that in order to build and test it properly, it will be a ever-increasing easy business decision to take shortcuts.

[Fezzik]

And we have already seen glimmers of such behavior with all the emissions scandals around diesel cars... the outcome is not immediate death of passengers, but car companies were/are skirting health regulations to increase profits.

[fredgrott]

that has already happened...see the legal cases in last century via Gerry Spence for example ford pinto etc..