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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: doomed light bulbs???
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Date: Mon, 17-Sep-84 00:20:58 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 17 00:20:58 1984
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<Should I have moved this to net.consumers?>

>...After all, much of the US economy survives on the basis of 
> disposable items (many US made cars, for example).  Even light bulbs
> have special additives which makes them blow out after a certain period
> of time....

Could anyone make a stab at substantiating this?  Why have I so seldom had
to replace a headlamp--or were auto light bulbs not included in this
generalization?  Isn't there some reason to think that this is pretty
unlikely, just based on the fact that a failed light bulb would make grist
for a dandy lawsuit if someone could make a case for it causing an accident
and demonstrate that the failure was designed into the bulb?
-- 
Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
   ...Keep your day job 'til your night job pays.