My Car Exploded. (No, seriously)
"A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside.
Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C.
A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."
http://www.calbaptist.edu/dskubik/pinto.htm
Dude, even I was going to bring up the Pinto, even though it came out before I was born, too, but OT beat me to it.
My money is that it had something to do with those Adderalls you picked up.
**Edit** I'm awesome for replying to an almost year old comment.
I disagree.
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcNeorjXMrE[/YOUTUBE]
**Damnit, beat again. Sigh. I need a job that lets me check the forums more often.
That's an interesting perspective. You would make a great auto exec.
nah, to be a great auto exec, you have to have the brain of realizing that it's cheaper to pay the # of victims of fiery death than spend the $11 per car to fix the gas tanks. 😀
I doubt it. Even if they fixed the problem with the pinto, things like this would have still been used to doom its existence. The biggest problem was they decided to fight the image and say it didn't exist, rather than fixing it.
I was merely pointing out that this is a rare, but serious side effect, not a common one as most people make it out to be.
I know what you meant, and my response was harsh. I apologize. But what should haunt everyone is the Ford execs knew the problem existed before releasing the car to market, and still decided to go ahead because the lawsuit payout would be less expensive than correcting the problem. It was common enough for them to know the problem before one consumer sat in that vehicle.
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