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by rickdeckard 44 days ago
No idea what's your source on this, but I see you're spanning quite some "rope" from

a.) a global company in the car-industry being cautious of exposing ANY risk-surface in a product because every issue making it to the field doesn't just bear the risk of very expensive recalls/fines but may also put people's ACTUAL lives in danger, to

b.) the country Germany and its whole society

> If anyone with money finds a technicality to sue you on, they will.

In the car-industry you don't need anyone with money to sue you. If you ship a car which is found to endanger participants of traffic, your company may not recover from the aftermath for years...