A subject close to my heart... Let me add - I once picked up my car from the service shop (a simple tire rotation, I thought), drove one block and my two rear tires came right off the car. The car wobbled and just dropped! It turned out that the service person (or should I say "service idiot") forgot to screw in wheel nuts.
I say that if you look deep enough, human error beyond the driver can be traced to a lot of auto crashes (I refuse to call them "accidents"). Regards, Bandele Jetstream Communications, Inc. badep...@jetstream.com >-----Original Message----- >From: oover...@lexmark.com [mailto:oover...@lexmark.com] >Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 2:06 PM >To: private_u...@lexmark.com >Cc: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org >Subject: Re: Product "Risks" > > > >My two cents . . . > >And many of those related to part failure are still related to >human error. > >There is some evidence that the Firestone problem is related >to under inflated >tires which is a driver responsibility. > >This doesn't even address the faulty maintenance that causes >accidents that may >never be attributed to human error beyond the driver. (i.e. >faulty brake jobs, >missing lug nuts, etc.) > >There was a news report recently that showed recording of a >State Patrolman's >car camera. >While stopped for a traffic accident the camera recorded a car >crossing the >median in a slow rotation and striking a tow truck that was >trying to remove the >first wrecked vehicles. >The reporter stated that the cause was the bad weather. >Did the driver have any responsibility for driving too fast on >ice covered >roads? > >Besides the litigious culture, we want to blame all of our >problem on someone >else. > >I agree that virtually all of the automotive "accidents" are >traceable to the >nut that holds the steering wheel. > >OO > > > > >"George_Alspaugh/Lex/Lexmark.LEXMARK"@sweeper.lex.lexmark.com >on 01/24/2001 >04:36:15 PM > >Please respond to >"George_Alspaugh/Lex/Lexmark.LEXMARK"@sweeper.lex.lexmark.com > >To: emc-pstc%majordomo.ieee....@interlock.lexmark.com >cc: (bcc: Oscar Overton/Lex/Lexmark) >Subject: Product "Risks" > > > > >Allow me to make one addendum to my prior note before I get blasted >by the readers. I implied that virtually all traffic accidents are >due to bad drivers. I overlooked the infamous Firestone tire episode. > >However, this does not alter my position. If you had a pie diagram >indicating the accidents vs. (1) bad driver choices, and (2) vehicle >defects, the latter would be a barely discernable sliver. > >George > > > >------------------------------------------- >This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety >Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. > >To cancel your subscription, send mail to: > majord...@ieee.org >with the single line: > unsubscribe emc-pstc > >For help, send mail to the list administrators: > Jim Bacher: jim_bac...@mail.monarch.com > Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org > >For policy questions, send mail to: > Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org > > > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------- >This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety >Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. > >To cancel your subscription, send mail to: > majord...@ieee.org >with the single line: > unsubscribe emc-pstc > >For help, send mail to the list administrators: > Jim Bacher: jim_bac...@mail.monarch.com > Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org > >For policy questions, send mail to: > Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org > > ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: jim_bac...@mail.monarch.com Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org
