One of the most famous of these involved the Ford Pinto case. Did any of you read about that? This was back in the 1970s, do you remember what the Ford Pinto was? A kind of car. Anybody? It was a small car, subcompact car, very popular, but it had one problem, which is the...
In the future, the CBD will be fully covered by an intelligent traffic control system. 操作提示:句子正确选择下拉选项框为“T”;句子错误选择下拉选项框为“F”。 1. The road system in Beijing's central business district (CBD) is being designed again. {T; F} 2. Commuters can only take ...
This is a great example of an innovation being pushed to market before the technology was truly ready, and without enough attention being paid to user testing. In Nintendo had taken the time to iron out some of these issues, it could have had a winner on its hands. 2. The Microsoft Zun...
THE FORD PINTO CASE, often cited in business ethics classes, is a piece of automotive history the carmakers would like to forget—but is important for consumers to remember. The car, as it turned out, had a fatal design flaw. Though technically it adhered to the industry standards at the...
FordPinto 1971. Source: Ford It deserves a spot on this list not because it’s a bad car but because of its volatile (or flammable?) nature. It was notorious for erupting flames in rear-end collisions. The name is also involved in Ford’s infamous paper trails, known as Ford Pinto me...
The Type-Zero-Zero also struck some of you as the lovechild mash-up of a Rolls and aVolvo S60orTesla Cybertruck, and there was some random mention of aFord Pinto, too. Remarks aboutthe Type 00’s boxy proportions being inspired byMinecraft,Roblox,Grand Theft Auto, and erm, MS Paint wer...
Better: The sputtering Ford Pinto rolled loudly through the neighborhood. (or The loudly sputtering Ford Pinto rolled through the neighborhood. The dependent clause that was sputtered is changed to the participle sputtering, and the relationship of loudly to a specific element is now more clear.) ...
I’m also waiting to hear lawmakers acknowledge that when something happens 5,000,000,000 times, it’s a feature not a bug just like the Ford Pinto’s exploding gas tank. No one ever asked them until Senator Thom Tillis began a series of hearings before t...
I mean I had a Ford Pinto… that didn’t exactly exude “cool” to anyone. However, the stereo I put in it was probably as good or better than what the Gran Torino had it in. When I would drive around town, I would always crank the music on my stereo as loud as it could go...