Comments by "S Andersson" (@sandersson2813) on "American Reacts to Pictures That Show Why There's Nowhere Like Europe" video.

America has never been about quality. The entire American ethos of consuming is for every product to be "bang for the buck" which is the antithesis of paying for quality.
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@saxon-mt5by Like what? Americans need to stop taking everything as being literal. It's called hyperbolic language. I'm sure there might be some American products which are high on quality, but quality in general isn't part of the American psyche to the same degree it is elsewhere.
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@saxon-mt5by So good in fact that they went out of business. Not really a very good example and having to back to pre WW2 to name something of quality that came out of America is rather scraping the underneath of the barrel. Both brothers were Germans.
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@saxon-mt5by And I pointed out that we didn't always speak literally. Have you never said anything like "no one thinks that" or "that's impossible" when it doesn't mean actually literally?
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@davidc.w.2908 Fortunately I don't live in the backwards USA. Most European cars have 12 year corrosion warranties, and virtually every car sold meets 5* Safety Standards. American driving standards are lower, maintenance standards are lower and your cars on average are older. Recalls are good because the companies are LEGALLY required to fix problems which have arisen, whether that hasn't always been the case. It's not possible to design something as complicated as a car and not have unforseen problems. Unfortunately circumstances are not always predictable and you'd be naive to think so.
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Kiruna is an absolute dump
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@galadballcrusher8182 Begun? You mean began. Doesn't say much for your education.
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@davidc.w.2908 Ha ha ha. Tech ology moved on. I don't want to still have a cathode ray tube from 2000 when there's better smart TVs which do better things, I don't want a car from 1985 when technology had made better, more reliable and better looking cars which offer greater comfort and efficiency. It's called PROGRESS.
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@101steel4 American clothes and hair styles are obsolete too. 😀
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@davidc.w.2908 I'm not talking about things that deliberately have a short life, I'm talking about things which are made "obsolete" by advances in technology. I could get a 2005 mobile from a drawer at home, would it work? Yes, it would, would I want to use something so rudimentary? No, of course I wouldn't. Goes for virtually every electrical piece of equipment that we all own. Things like coffee grinders etc are things that aren't made obsolete, their function doesn't change. You clearly don't remember all the recalls from the dreadful quality rust bucket cars from the 1980's. Things are also recalled because we have HIGHER safety requirements than we used to and consumer laws help protect the consumer. Having a recall is a GOOD THING.
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@davidc.w.2908 What do you mean "you read more and more that SUVs and pick ups are sold there." SUV and Pickups are not exempt from having to reach a safety threshold. We have a higher standard of driving test than US and we have lower levels of blood alcohol permitted and drink driving is seriously taboo. No, a recall doesn't mean that a problem wasn't caught before product release, problems can occur over time, such as Toyota recently recalled a model for a brake issue which develops over time. We get the same happening in loads of products, and given how much more sophisticated cars and other products are these days, it isn't surprising. We even get food and toys recalled now. It's basic safety and good for us all. Yes, it would be great if products could be guaranteed not to develop faults, but despite all efforts to mitigate against it, you can't foresee certain problems. Would you rather Boeing or Airbus didn't recall their products in light of information that something MIGHT happen?
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@davidc.w.2908 You're just using selective memory. I remember cars being recalled in the 1980's and cars were shocking quality back then and considerable LESS safe. As I previously stated, the majority of cars, SUVs @!$ pick ups for sale in Europe already meet the top level of safety assessment. They have FAR more safety features than older cars. For example I think I'm correct to say that the Volvo XC90 might not have more than a single fatality for occupants in road collisions. Even American cars, like the Tesla rank very highly for collision avoidance and safety in crashes. It's not even in question that today's cars are MUCH safer than those of previous decades. It's very true that many US cars are not sold in Europe, but it's largely a style thing, as American designed cars bar a few examples don't sell well around the world anyway. For balance there's tons of European cars that aren't sold in US either. You're using hindsight incorrectly. You can't know everything. You have to go with the evidence which is available at the time and the data received from testing.
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@camillosteuss Plenty cars will be here in 50 years, but who wants 50 year old cars?
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@camillosteuss Then today's cars that will be around in 50 years are by default quality items. There will be loads of current cars which will become classics and still be around in 50 years, none of them will probably be American though.
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@peterbockholm3176 Fun fact: fun facts aren't fun.
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@peterbockholm3176 It's one of those incredibly annoying sayings that people use these days like "my bad", "So......", "literally", "like", "tell me you're a xxxx without telling me you're a xxxx", "hold my beer", "be like" , "am i a joke to you" etc etc etc. Its toe curling.
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@Lewtable I'm not trying "impose " anything. I was just saying I thought such hackneyed expressions to be overused and annoying. Am I not allowed to say so?
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