英文概述One Bad Bump .The Ford Pinto was a famously bad automobile, but worse still might be Ford's handling of the safety concerns surrounding the '70s-era subcompact. Before the car ever reached the 7、market, concerns emerged that a rear-end collision might cause the Pinto to blow ...
The Ford Pinto was a famously bad automobile, but worse still might be Ford's handling of the safety concerns surrounding the '70s-era subcompact. Before the car ever reached the market, concerns emerged that a rear-end collision might cause the Pinto to blow up — the positioning of the...
The Ford Pinto was a famously bad automobile, but worse still might be Ford's handling of the safety concerns surrounding the '70s-era subcompact. Before the car ever reached the market, concerns emerged that a rear-end collision might cause the Pinto to blow up — the positioning of the...
The article focuses on Ford Motor Company's decision not to recall its Pinto. In the early 1970s, Dennis Gioia, a newly hired recall coordinator at Ford, heard scattered tales that the company's popular new c...
In 1978, Ford faced two separate court cases connected to safety concerns surrounding the Pinto’s gas tank. In both instances, Pinto passengers had burned to death after their cars burst into flames following rear-end collisions. A scalding report fromMother Jonestitled “Pinto Madness” would ...
In 1978, Ford faced two separate court cases connected to safety concerns surrounding the Pinto’s gas tank. In both instances, Pinto passengers had burned to death after their cars burst into flames following rear-end collisions. A scalding report fromMother Jonestitled “Pinto Madness” would ...
About 25 years ago, we covered a criminal prosecution in Elkhart, Indiana. It was a criminal prosecution of Ford for the deaths of two teenage girls whose Ford Pinto was rear ended and they were burned to death. It was a criminal homicide prosecution. It was the last time a homicide pros...
Both Ford and Chevrolet introduced sub-compact cars in 1971, and both would be controversial in their own ways. The Pinto would become the subject of safety concerns in rear-end collisions, while the Vega’s negative PR was largely based on quality control issues. Yet the Pinto would go on...
Immanuel Kant would have would have certainly believed that Ford acted wrongly by not upgrading the integrity of the Pinto’s fuel system after learning about the danger of explosions in low-speed rear end collisions. Kantian deontology asserts that “nothing can possibly be conceived in the world...
The Pinto’s low pricing resulted in sales of 2 million units over the course of the decade. But, as we all know, the car also became notorious for its exploding gas tank. A design flaw allowed for the fuel tank to be punctured during rear-end collisions, resulting in dozens of deaths...