ELI5:How do car companies/the gov determine what cars to recall and why to recall them?

Ive been working on cars for years, im not looking for the basic "well its tied to your vin, duh" answer. I know that. What im asking is, how do they identify the issue, figure out which cars were affected, etc.

Theres sooooooo much time and data to look through to find potential issues, presumably made worse if the company doesnt keep very good records.

The only good/"non lazy" method i can think of is if someone essentially reads logs/notes and recreates the days step by step. "Employee 1 turned the machine on at the start of the day, lets check the last time it was calibrated. Ok that checks out but when was the tool on the end of it checked/replaced? 6 months ago? is that still within spec or should it have been replaced again? Did the machine report any errors on that day?" etc. Or something like watching cameras to see if a machine leaves debris inside of the engine and no one notices before it gets shipped out

Or do they take the "easy/lazy way out" and say "well that might be the issue right there, just to be safe recall everything for the next 6 months after this car"?

Thanks

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u/lindenbrock — 1 month ago

PVE "items will be returned to other player upon extraction"?

I loaded into Farm PVE solo and found a dead player. Looted at least 350k from him, guns, giant bag, etc. I got this pop up when equipping some of their gear, and then again at the end of the run and i dont see the items i took from the player. Whats up with that? The only form of insurance i have seen so far is in the skill tree. Does PVE have some innate insurance or something? Most other extraction games let you keep the loot if someone died and you took it

TY

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u/lindenbrock — 4 months ago

Employer took stocks back 5+ months after getting fired?

EDIT: SOLVED! Thanks everyone

I dont have much investing/stocks experience so this may be a stupid question: I elected to have deductions taken out for retirement at this job with a company match, and then I did a rollover with Fidelity after getting fired but never set anything up after that. So the $ has been sitting in an account barely gaining any interest since last year. I noticed today that on March 30th my portfolio went from a steady 2k down to $0, and then up to $1300 the next day.

I contacted Fidelity live chat and was told "oh you made a withdrawl, click here to see your history" but i see no withdrawls, only an entry for -23 stocks and another for -47 stocks, both on March 30th. I asked if the company can take stocks back after i am gone and was told "Right, my understanding with stock plans is the shares need to vest - if they don't go through that vesting period they are forfeited. ".

When I google "vesting stocks" i see examples like "1k shares over 4 years, 250 shares per year" but no mention of what happens if you dont stay for that whole period. I was under the assumption that my stocks were essentially "supplimental" income, instead of paying me more $ i got stocks instead. So its confusing me as to how a company can say "lol jk" and take it back.

I worked there for about 9 months, so if my stocks werent "vested" i could understand losing them. What i dont understand is how i only lost 30-40% instead of all of it. Did i hit the cutoff for some stocks to vest but not others?

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u/lindenbrock — 5 months ago