GM financial woes have begun

BillyW wrote:
I hope GM comes out of this a much better company. However the responsibility for this mess rests squarely on their shoulders and not on their dead or injured customers. I can't believe how some of you try to spin it any other way.

Just hold on a minute....
GM is certainly not blameless in this whole fiasco but two of the major casualties that hit the headlines (one of them in Canada) involved kids who were either angry or drunk and drove like bats out of hell without putting their seat belts on.
They lost control and their cars left the road, hitting curbs/ditches/trees etc, at which point (according to analysis of the on-board computer) a heavy keychain swung the ignition off, disabling the airbags.
The cars were already out of control and heading for an impact of some sort. Don't tell me GM was to blame for those circumstances - there has to be some portion of the responsibility to be placed with the driver. Or have we become so risk averse that it is never the responsibility of the person involved?
At this point in the accident, the issue is whether or not airbag deployment (without a seat belt) would have avoided the fatality. It ain't necessarily so, airbags are designed to work WITH the seat belts, not alone.
Again, GM is not blameless but I really struggle with how they were supposed to predict the outcome of the situations described.