[noogle]

It's a different risk: if your novel DVD player did not work, you could just watch something else. If your novel EV doesn't charge, you may be left stranded, miss a flight or fail to reach medical care. Moreover, no government planned to ban VCRs using those early problematic DVD players as a justification.

[jjav]

> It's a different risk: if your novel DVD player did not work, you could just watch something else.

Also, you could (and nearly everyone did) add a DVD player to your stack but keep the VCR so you had both.

Sure, the same is possible with cars, but gets several orders of magnitude more expensive to have multiple cars so it's not practical for many people.