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Originally Posted by Tony P
Apart from size, a helmet has fewer parts which can suffer a design or construction flaw or fault compared with a vehicle.
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I think Mollydog lays out the right answer above, but also I think that helmets are different for a couple of reasons:
1) if you've got a helmet lawsuit, someone is almost certainly dead, which ups the stakes; and
2) with vehicles, a manufacturer could always claim that driver error was involved (too fast, too drunk, too inexperienced, etc.) thus taking some of the blame away from the product. with a helmet, it is easier for lawyers to argue that johnny put the helmet on and thus should be protected from anything bad happening to his head (even if no helmet in the world could have protected him).
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