
Episode 528: Jonathan Shariat on Designing to Avoid Worst Case Outcomes
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The Fordpinto Story
The fordpinto, if you're not familiar, is notorious. They knowingly had this problem where if it was rear ended at even like a pretty low speed, it would burst into flames because the gas tank would rupture. And so it became a death trap of fire and caused many deaths,. In an interview with the ceo at the time, almost destroyed fortsVery seriously, would have brought the whole tunk company down. But after all this na was going crazy and they was about to destroy the company, they went back to the drawing board. The engineers came up with their best solution, which cost them nine dollars. It's very easy to get lulled into that sense of
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