The most ridiculous fix to a serious car problem, to me, was that with the GM Cobalt et al. cars: http://engineeringethicsblog.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-switch-f

The most ridiculous fix to a serious car problem, to me, was that with the GM Cobalt et al. cars: http://engineeringethicsblog.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-switch-from-hell-gms-barra-and.html http://engineeringethicsblog.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-switch... Anyone can see that the 'fix' was half-baked. This is a weird analogy, but it popped into my mind to fit the unbelievable situation: It's like designing a traveling laptop-cooling station where the laptop sits on a strainer, which is almost touching a pool of water. The fix was to increase the gap between the strainer and the water by 1cm. Surprisingly, laptops would still get wet after the fix.