The Insurance Institute comes out with Auto Safety ratings every year and they make their criteria known in advance. So last year they said that no car that didn't have ECS technology, electronic control systems reduce skids, slides and roll overs.
No American cars made the safety list this year. Why? Because they didn't have ECS. GM, Ford have been having terrible years financially, they have made money on trucks for years but high gas prices have had sales plummeting. Lack of good design has made Americans buy hondas and toyotas and vws. Ford and GM are laying off workers and going to Washington for handouts and bailouts.
But isn't it telling, that with an entire year to install already existing technology, technology that would actually make their products safer, the American car industry could not CHANGE ONE SINGLE assembly line to insure that one of their makes of cars were on that safety list.
Shouldn't these corporations stop paying their execs huge salaries and start actually firing the CEOs and not the workers?
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