If you are in any vehicle and get rear ended or t-boned or whatever bad enough... theres a chance you could die... in any vehicle. There is no guarantee or promise of safety in any vehicle out on the roads...that is the risk we all take by hopping in a vehicle. The best we can do is mitigate the risks by safety features, and in order to make it a level playing field, have a set of standards for those features. However, when the proverbial sh*t hits the fan and a bad traffic accident happens, eapecially something as catastrophic as a semi rear ending a passenger vehicle at high speed, there is only so much those safety features/standards can do. Do you blame the results of the accident on the features of the vehicle that were never designed to handle that degree of an accident? Or is it just part of the inherent risk in life---you cant plan or protect for every eventuality. If a man is wearing a bulletproof vest, and then gets shot in the leg, do you go after the manufacturer of the bulletproof vest and say their product is defective for not stopping the bullet? No---because that is an unreasonable expectation, just as a vehicle that meets all the safety standards for the time it was built, cant reasonably be expected to handle something that probably any other vehicle in the same situation wouldnt be able to handle. You didnt buy a tank, or an armored car, you bought a jeep, a passenger vehicle. Put any vehicle of that vintage up against a semi, and it'll lose every time, same way as the jeep does. Not the manufacturers fault...just the outcome of the circumstances. NHTSA needs to just grow a pair and tell these lobbying groups the truth...that sh*t happens, and to quit trying to pin it on vehicle manufacturers, just for the sake of having a scapegoat.HemiDayton said:How much will the Jeep recall cost? Well, if you are in the Jeep and it gets rear-ended and you die, what do you think that's worth? I can tell you what my wife thinks it is worth alright. Anyway, the cost really doesn't matter. The auto industry is sitting on over $10 billion dollars in warranty reserves so they might as well spend a little of it. After all, they got that from us folks out here who are buying them. Oh, and here's another Jeep Liberty recall - this one's a baby stroller - really! The tires rupture and the wheel goes flying into parts -