Let's be real careful here and give credit where credit is due. The Pinto incident was in many ways not a safety issue with regard to safety testing and the safety engineers at Ford. The Ford Pinto fiasco was clearly a management issue.
Tests were done to the 20 mph rear impact standard early in the Pinto development. Those tests clearly showed that the Pinto failed. Those tests were performed by Ford's safety team according to National Standards and were the results were reported to management. It was management who decided to go ahead with the failed design. The Pinto incident shows that we as safety engineers can really a take a horse to water but making it drink is a wholly different issue. - Doug McKean ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: [email protected] Dave Heald [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: No longer online until our new server is brought online and the old messages are imported into the new server.
