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Originally Posted by Hersbird
Except 1/2 the population is a drain on the other 1/2 financially so depending on if the deaths come from the givers or the takers.
I still say the safety features in their totality cost much Kore then $100, where do you even get that? I ask for a 3rd time, how come the cheapest car that !eets these standards is over $10,000 while there are cars out there that don't for a 1/3 that price.
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Most of the real takers drive in limos or fly private planes so we don't get too many of them - shame but that's life
Back to your price thing
As I have already said
THERE IS NO RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COST AND PRICE
Cost is what it costs to make
Price is what you can get for it
To get an idea of the cost of the safety gear do a "gedanken" experiment
Imagine all of the safety gear stripped out on one side of a line and the rest of the car stripped to small pieces on the other
The safety pile is about (or less than) 1% of the size of the other pile
1% of $10,000 (and I'm being generous about the "cost" here) is $100
To give another datum point the Cummins 6 liter used in the Dodge Ram
(the whole thing, fuel system, turbo, starter, alternator, flywheel)
1100 lbs of finely machined steel
Was being sold to Dodge for just less than $2000 a unit (back in 2001)
That's less than $2 a pound