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Ultimately the reason we are here today , and the reason we are not leaving this to the courts and solely NHTSA ( the regulators whose job it is to do these things ) is that we are trying to move quickly and determine what safety concerns are out there . " If you are going to try to stop the way people put music onto their iPods - - by downloading it into a computer and transferring it over - - then you do n't understand changes that technology is inducing any better than a cow understands algebra . " That is , we are now living in a world where one person or a small group of people armed with the right materials can wreak havoc , even on a superpower . If where you are going is should we be using the same tire on a sport utility vehicle and a pick-up truck , in actual fact the specifications are adequate for both , and it 's not uncommon in the industry to have a similar performance tire across different derivative fronts . Let me in the final question in a deposition on Thomas Bogaman , Ford 's quality control officer , taken on December 21st , Mr. Bogaman testified that it was his opinion that all Firestone Wilderness AT 15-inch tires were not , and I will quote , `` robust against variations in inflation pressure and in operating condition , load and speed '' close quote . I 'm sure there are other places you would like to be . We know the best way to prevent accidents caused by tread separations is to prevent tread separations and that is why we are replacing the Firestone Wilderness AT tires on our vehicles . If , in fact , a tire that is going to be replaced by Ford is going to be replaced with a tire that has a much worse claims record than a tire being replaced , is that information significant enough for Ford perhaps to make a different decision or for consumers to make a different decision ? We dropped the tire before it was even sourced on the Explorer . Dell made headlines a few years ago with the announcement that it was bringing its Indian-based contact center operations back to the U.S. because of customer complaints of poor service . TREAD Act that was passed last year by Congress was that field data would become readily available on a prompt basis so that we could look at it and that - - it was transparent to everyone , not only to the tire companies . So that 's where you are today . It was n't even a consideration for us as to who should pay this , and our primary concern was we needed to move quickly . " Their investigators must not be very thorough because MashBoxx has n't launched yet , so I do n't see how it 's possible for us to have infringed on their patent . " Supporters of file-sharing programs Grokster and StreamCast scourged the entertainment industry yesterday following the filing of briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court in a case that could be Armageddon for the peer-to-peer software industry . And I think the purpose of these hearings is to clarify this stuff for the American people , and all we are doing is confusing them by saying we have new tires and new worries , but yet we are not sharing this information with the American public . However , I would note that that did appear on the news media already , and since we are going to let this hang out , I suggest it should all hang out .