For those that remember a little farther back there used to be an
old joke circa 1970) that the worse thing you could see outside your
windshield was a Ford Pinto with Firestone 721 tires header your direction
backwards.
For the "youngsters" in the group. There was time when a Pinto or
two would blow up on impact allegedly because of a defect in the placement
of the gas tank, and Firestone almost went out of business because of the
above tires failing. Both of them occurred roughly the same time, hence the
joke.
Gary
-----Original Message-----
From: geor...@lexmark.com [mailto:geor...@lexmark.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 1:36 PM
To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
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
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