Any manager who suggested such a thing today would be immediately sacrificed on the altar of “shareholder value”.
Better to be the one setting the standard rather than waiting for a new standard to emerge and having to update your production line
Volvo hasn’t been the same though. They are also involved in the dieselgate scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_emissions_scandal?wprov=sfla1, which is sad because after learning about their invention of three point seatbelt and pivot to building a reputation as being safe, they had to do cheat on emissions test.
All European car makers participated in that scheme. The EU let them.
Yup, it’s rather disappointing. But the EU did not let them.
Volvo released the modern standard seat belt in 1959 but it was originally worked on by a government safety company who offered it to Volvo. Volvo were also a very different company back then.
Volvo Cars has been separate from its former parent conglomerate and producer of heavy trucks, buses, and construction equipment (among others) AB Volvo since 1999 when AB Volvo sold its automobile division Volvo Cars to Ford Motor Company for US$6.47 billion.[3] On 28 March 2010, Ford sold Volvo Cars at a loss to Geely Holding for $1.8 billion; the deal closed in August 2010.[4][5] Volvo Cars was publicly listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm stock exchange in 2021, though Geely Holding still retains majority ownership. Volvo Cars and AB Volvo share the Volvo logo, and cooperate in running the Volvo Museum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_Cars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt
But as usual, good things were done by the public sector and the goodwill and financial reward were reaped by the private sector.
This universe is not moving towards a resemblance of the one in Star Trek. We are too corrupt, too many of us are poisoned with greed and selfishness, outweighing the ones with good intent to achieve greatness and progress. The tree of humanity is rotting and nobody is cutting away the diseased parts. We will remain ugly until we’re extinct, or we will heal and flourish again.
IIRC, Star Trek had WW3 before their utopian society emerged.
that and many other periods of severe unrest, the whole point of the show is that humanity overcame it, not that they magically stopped being shitty.
I don’t think it will end until someone figures out how to edit greed out of the human genome.
it’s not a genetical thing, it’s the capitalist “culture”
I’m not sure I’d go that far. Autists famously don’t care bout money
autistic people have some trouble with following unreasonable, illogical rules
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I had to re-click to see it seriously. how did you even notice? Haa! gaaaaayy
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Excuse me???
Did I stutter?
W-w-what do you mean??
There’s a similar story in paragliding, by leading designer Ozone discovering a breakthrough around 2010. The discovery was basically designing holes in the leading edge of the glider which would allow airflow through, making the structure more resistant to collapse. They didn’t monopolize the discovery, and allowed all other manufacturers to use it as well. Always love these stories.
They made some profit before releasing it, just like Valve with Half-Life and Source engine. Absolute chads.
Yeah… no. If they cared about safety, they would have pushed for actually safer public transport.
I am all for better public transit. But however short sighted people were about car centric infrastructure, you are not wiser or better than them. Humans are flawed, the demand for cars was there. We may want to reduce it now, but back when driving was standard Volvo did a good thing making an industry safety standard.
Hindsight is 20/20
This is not much different than Tesla figuring out batteries and chargers and giving others access to that data. Sometimes companies do good things
It’s fairly different. Tesla needed a government incentive to move away from the proprietary charger.
Im aware, this is still somewhat similar in that this has made many others safer from the harms caused by driving as the net reduction in emissions from China especially benefits all.
Tesla needed a government incentive to move away from the proprietary charger.
And America needed a truly massive bribe to even participate in WW2 and then D-Day. Is it worthwhile to quibble about how the sausage is made?
Yes. Because it wouldn’t have happened otherwise.
Under a post about morality? U serious?
Which bribe would that be?
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That’s not a “pro-Musk lie”. The fact is Tesla still gave this info out and while there might be sound business logic for doing so this was a huge reason for why China has been able to cut emissions which benefits everyone.
Then there’s sawstop who was trying to get Congress to require a sawstop on all table saws while simultaneously patent trolling any company that came up with their own version of it. Not sure what ended up happening with that.
That’s the reverse of this situation though?
Yeah I was giving an example of a company being shitty.
