Una serie en Time. Se recomienda especialmente ver el Ford Pinto de 1971, un verdadero encendedor portátil. De este automóvil se recuerda un famoso memo con el cálculo que compara los costos de indemnizaciones por muertes por incendio con el costo de reforzar la sección trasera para no tener incendios:
Of course the Pinto goes on the Worst list, but not because it was a particularly bad car — not particularly — but because it had a rather volatile nature. The car tended to erupt in flame in rear-end collisions. The Pinto is at the end of one of autodom’s most notorious paper trails, the Ford Pinto memo , which ruthlessly calculates the cost of reinforcing the rear end ($121 million) versus the potential payout to victims ($50 million). Conclusion? Let ‘em burn.
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