Thread: Who needs regulations?

I was just reading an article about Brazil and how the motor vehicle death rate is sky high and has been increasing year by year. Certainly folks there ignore traffic rules and the police don't enforce them but it seems the cars built and sold there are lacking all the safety devices found in the U.S and Europe. In an accident steering wheels simple impale the drivers and the roofs crush to nothing and the car bodies crumple like a cardboard box. When asked about why the exact same car model built elsewhere performs totally differently in a wreck than the ones in Brazil some of the car makers simply lie and say it isn't so and some like Ford say "their cars are legal in Brazil".

A segment in this country think regulations are bad and corporations will always do the right thing. This serves as perfect example how corporations simply only care about their bottom line and without regulations do nothing. Many feel the cars of the 70s simply would never be built that way these days and Govt regulations were never needed.

No doubt if we didn't have regulations we would have the same cars here that Brazil has now.

We see this again and again. Only when corporations are forced to do things will they do them.