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Why just them? Everybody was hurting for chips. Sadly counterfeits have made it into the part supply for decades. Tons of profit and minimal risk to the overseas supplier (if you get caught, just disappear and start a new company).
The article mentioned potential dodgy chips in stability control systems. Can you imagine if NHTSA mandated that a manufacturer swap out every stability system they have made in the past bunch of years as they are legally required and can't prove that they work properly? I don't know what threshold it would take to get to that point. The scary thing about stability control is it can easily become unstability control if it makes mistakes (eg grabbing the rear outside brake in a corner sends you over at least one lane and there is nothing the driver can do to anticipate or prevent it). Getting their hands on tens of millions of chips to do the recall would be crushing. Dealer time to swap a computer on every vehicle in circulation would be crazy. Once you know that some dodgy chips are in the supply chain but you have no idea where they are, you can't have a finely controlled target.
You missed my point. If china has a fake chip problem how many other pars and pieces are also likely not to spec when the whole thing is built there.
It's all about morals and QC. If conventional manufacturers (and even plane manufacturers) have no issue turning a blind eye, I don't automatically assume that Chinese manufacturers are worse.
And there's where we differ.
They may have been installed at one point. When other planes were checked and "additional tightening was required", that was the understatement of the year. From their statement, I was envisioning more torque required not every visible bolt falling out.
I'd hope not. My guess on that one was speed. A lot of the systems give up at low speed as sensor resolution isn't sufficient to calculate reliably. Iirc 20 km/h used to be common. Not sure if that has changed. 20km/h in a wet corner with a painted line, oil slick or metal could easily cause brown pants.
Remember truck tires flying off? The studs were never hardened. Lots were used before they were noticed. That company disappeared. And the gov. Made tire changing a trade so it appeared something was done.
No one can drink the water on our newest war ships. Quess where the water valves came from.
A friend was a foreman on a site where a high pressure coupling fractured causing an injury. At the following inquiry the MOL rep demanded to know what was being done to prevent a recurrence.
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