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Why don't US car companies just improve their safety standards?


"When Congress passes new emission standards, [Honda] hires 50 more engineers and GM hires 50 more lawyers."

The quote is attributed to Soichiro Honda, in the book Driving Honda: Inside the World's Most Innovative Car Company by Jeffrey Rothfeder

Why solve hard problems when you can just lobby your way out of it?


Companies must grow fast and large at all costs due to shareholder pressure, competitiveness and many other factors. This means that short-term profits naturally have priority. It makes much sense, from a short-term profits perspective, to instead lobby politicians and lawyer up - it's the path of least resistance in the current economic reality


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