• frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io
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    21 hours ago

    As is tradition. Wake me when a corporation finds out that its product harms people and voluntarily takes it off the market without the threat of legal action.

    • LEM 1689@lemmy.sdf.org
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      21 hours ago

      This did kind of happen with three-wheel all terrain cycles, the ATC. They were so dangerous they just stopped making them. Or people stopped buying them. I watched a documentary. They disappeared from the market before they were banned. Nowadays they all have four wheels.

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        20 hours ago

        I feel like the obvious consumer lawsuits that were coming had an impact there, though