Well, I haven't been an expert witness, or a math major, but I have been a lawyer, and your narrative ignores the point of product liability law. When your device is involved in hurting people, you either continue to face the consequences of your action in the market, or you fix the device —usually both. The high-risk industry you're supplying to may not like that you're the only fun kart gas-cap game in town, but who's fault is that? Not the injured. Briggs enjoyed the privilege of the market for it's device but cut it's losses when the money dried up for that industry. That the mini and karting industries may have struggled to find willing, quality suppliers thereafter is not the fault of the consuming public, either. Hard-working, god-fearing, tax-paying, santa-loving Americans may have remained willing to buy, and ride, but for the gig being up, the toy being broken, and no adults (other suppliers) sufficiently motivated to stop and fix it. These were grown-up problems, solved by and for grown-ups. Nothing to do with kids.
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