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Bronco, Explorer, and F150 rollovers -fixed by adding stability and Tire pressure monitors Toyota's gas pedal and floor mat recall - halfway similar to this is
by csours 12y ago
Bronco, Explorer, and F150 rollovers -fixed by adding stability and Tire pressure monitors
Toyota's gas pedal and floor mat recall - halfway similar to this issue in that it involved very poor affordance (drivers could not immediately tell what was wrong, they thought they were pressing the break, but the gas was pressed as well)
GM Streetcar conspiracy
Cars from the Big 3 used to literally fall apart in the 70's due to poor assembly. (Welcome Toyota)
Ford Pintos in the 1970s had badly under-designed gas tanks that ruptured and caused fires in rear-end collisions. Media put the death toll in the "hundreds", NHTSA had a death toll of 27.
The scandal of the Big 3 killing smaller car companies like the Tucker 48.
Incredibly stupid design decisions like planned obsolescence.
GMs policy of "build a bunch of cars and make people buy them" from the 1970's to the early 2000's - responsible for peoples poor opinion of GM and competitors that followed the same mantra (It even bit Toyota in the mid 2000's)
- rodgerd 12y agoThe only one on your list which is comparable is the Pinto, where a known fatal fault was cynically ignored because it would be cheaper to keep paying out on lawsuits than fix the problem.
- jacquesm 12y ago'break'?
- csours 12y agoYup. Written before I had coffee. Also note the poor formatting.