Government Motors: Recalls the 2012 Sonic -- Missing Brake Pads

Over the years, I have sort of understood and accepted recalls. They seemed "legitimate" as in engineering defects / design defects that might not have been caught before mass produced, but MISSING BRAKE PADS!

How does one quantify that lapse?

For a professional wedding photographer: forgetting to remove the lens cap.

For a surgeon: forgetting which leg to amputate.

For city highway department: striping an old highway, and then laying new asphalt (yes, the USAF did that at Grand Forks Air Force Base when I was stationed there in 1982).

For a stock broker: putting in a sell order when the client wanted to buy Apple.

For a Bakken oil operator: drilling into the Spearfish when targeting the Bakken.

For Japanese nuclear plant designers: placing emergency/auxiliary electric motors below sea level.

Missing brake pads, incredible.