dougrainer wrote:
Ever hear of the Ford Pinto:h Doug
Ever hear of “facts”? Look up the actual real-life crash data.
Ford built a little over 3 million Pinto's over the 10 years the car was in production, there was 117 lawsuits brought against Ford over the Pinto in total, and NOT all of those lawsuits were ‘the real McCoy’, a large number of them were ‘nuisance suits’.
Years after the fiasco blew over, UCLA law professor Gary T. Schwartz in a Rutgers Law Review article found that the incidence of Pinto deaths represented 1.9% of all "fatal accidents accompanied by some fire."
The Pinto also accounted for that same 1.9% of all cars on the road at the time. Implying the car was average for all cars and slightly above average for its class.
Yet people still think of a Pinto as a "death trap".
Urban myth and and ‘I knows it!!’ versus reality, reality wins EVERY time.
