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The History of the Ford Pinto

Ford was well aware of the notion that its pintos were flaming death traps, right? And from those 40 crash tests, he found that 11 of them had been carried out before the pinto. They changed three of them, and they all passed, yet they still didn't use it. The point is they had three solutions before the Ford was being rolled off the line, and they chose to ignore all three of them.

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