OT. Ford Punished

[Dean Hoffman]

A jury awarded siblings a bunch of money in an accident that happened to their parents back in 2014.

[hubops]

Lots of blame to go around :

The jury determined 30% of the damages went against Pep Boys for installing the wrong size tires on the truck, causing the blowout.

Awaiting the appeals ... John T.

[Jamesy]

The US legal system has been completely broken for centuries now.

[Jamesy]

It's down to how the steering geometry is done.

When I was considering buying the 73 VW Golf/Polo, the salesman took me for a drive in the one he was trying to sell me new. Drove along a narrow road with the offside wheels right off the road in the wet dirt off the sealed section, took his hands off the steering wheel, jammed his foot on the brakes as hard as he could, with no antilock braking on that vintage of car. The car just carried on normally, no swerve at all.

The reason that works is because the virtual extension of the vertical extension of the pivot that the the front wheel pivots around when turning a corner touches the road outside where the tire hits the road, so there is no turning moment with a flat tire.

[rbowman]

I've been in a roll over and you sort of accepted that putting a vehicle on its roof wasn't a good thing. Apparently Alfa Romeos are sturdier than F-150's though.