Just an FYI: Ken Waller was a Ford engineer and served as an expert witness in many of those cases. Paul
On Sep 21, 2010, at 11:00 AM, John Sessoms wrote: > From: "Ken Waller" >> From: "Jeffery Smith" >> >>> > At least it has been since the Ford Pinto was discontinued. ;-) >> >> And the Pinto is hit from the rear without the gas cap on.... >> > > Didn't matter whether the cap was on or off. > > The design of how the filler neck connected to the gas tank was vulnerable in > rear impact collisions. > > The vulnerability was over-stated to some extent. An impact sufficient to > puncture the fuel tank in the Pinto was of questionable survivability > otherwise because of the vehicle's small size. > > Over the entire production run, the Pinto's safety record was comparable to > other vehicles of all sizes sold in the U.S. and actually slightly better > than comparable imports of that time. > > http://www.pointoflaw.com/articles/The_Myth_of_the_Ford_Pinto_Case.pdf > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
