:19:04
It's just a question.
:19:13
I told Flannery about the problem
a month or so before he died.
:19:18
- He called in his head bean counter.
- What's that?
:19:20
- Risk management expert, right?
- Yeah.
:19:24
Flannery shows him the data and asks him
how much it would cost to retrofit...
:19:28
- You mean recall?
- Yeah, you got it.
:19:31
To retrofit 175,000 units.
:19:34
Multiply that times 300 bucks a car,
give or take.
:19:39
You're looking at around $50 million.
:19:42
So the risk guy,
he crunches the numbers some more.
:19:46
He figures you'd have a fireball collision
about every 3,000 cars.
:19:50
That's 158 explosions.
:19:53
Which is almost as many
plaintiffs as there are.
:19:56
These guys know their numbers.
:20:04
So you multiply that
times $200,000 per lawsuit.
:20:09
That's assuming everybody sues and wins.
30 million max.
:20:14
See? It's cheaper to deal with the lawsuits
than it is to fix the blinker.
:20:19
It's what the bean counters
call a simple actuarial analysis.
:20:47
Dad?
:20:59
- Dad!
- Miss Ward? What an honor.