off topic / traction control

[Jason R. Haines]

....snip.....
> which did anyone hear that Ford settled another claim with the whole
> Firestone Debate? No $figure was given but the Lady was looking for $100
> million. Also, did anyone see the Motor Trend article where they took an
> explorer, "blew out" (dumped all pressure in <1 sec) the rear drivers tire
@
> 70 mph with no hands on the wheel and the truck didn't flip? Thought it
was
> more then interesting

I think the article you are talking about was in Car & Driver. The previous
month they discussed some of the statistics of the whole tire failure issue.
Pretty interesting although I would have liked to have seen the testing done
with front tire "blow outs" and a heavily loaded vehicle (and maybe even
some turning occurring when the blow out occurred).

Jason


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