WTF? Now tires are being recalled too. Actually I’m sort of surprised this hasn’t happened more often in the past or it could be that because I’m young I just don’t know about it. Have there been a lot of other incidences with Chinese products in the not too-distant past like with the recent tires, toothpaste, and pet food?
…fueled by Western companies wanting to produce their products at as low a cost as possible, and outsourcing their labour to China and third-world countries where people can be coerced into working in dangerously unsafe conditions for a handful of pennies an hour.
That’s what I said. Besides, I think our corporate overlords have sufficiently divorced themselves from place that they can no longer be considered exclusively Western…
More precisely, they have separated themselves culturally from the West and would rule it as they would everywhere else. I saw this little thing in the Star today or yesterday talking about the ultra-rich and saying that they live a separate life vrom the rest of us: separate transportation system, culture, and so on.
I don’t know about crashworthiness, but a Chinese automaker brought a car to the Detroit Auto Show last year. A couple reporters got a chance to look at it (it wasn’t shown to the public) and from what I’ve read the quality was stunningly bad.
Incidentally, that woman who blew her head off also did that with a 5x5 pack of 3-inch mortars. It was reportedly because of her own folly, and I haven’t heard anything to suggest it was the same model though.
Not much more than that, really. It was just a short article in the newspaper. Apparently, the car had loose knobs and other signs of shoddy workmanship which left the reporters (or at least, the guy who wrote the article) rather underwhelmed.
Frankly, I was reminded of the stories you used to hear about Yugos.