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To: The_Victor
"The graduate with an Engineering degree asks, "How does it work?"

Our business is air suspension and we repair all Ford products that came with factory installed air suspension (1984 to current year). We have a term called Suicide by Engineer.

We received a call several years ago from an attorney that wanted to reserve our company as an expert witness in a Civil Trial that involved a death.

It seems that a engineer that owned a Lincoln MK VII figured out that if he added his body weight to the front end of his vehicle, the computer would read that the front end was too low due to the added weight and thus increase the psi to the front end to take it up to trim height.

So far, so good. With the ignition still in the run position, the engineer removed his body weight from the front end and found that such was greater than normal height and he proceeded to crawl under the front end of the vehicle for what ever reason.

Once he removed his weight from the front end, the computer read 45 seconds later that the front end was too high and vented air for the excessive height, lowering the vehicle onto the engineer laying under the vehicle and crushing him. Suicide by Engineer.

106 posted on 02/10/2006 6:55:07 AM PST by Deguello
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To: Deguello
I despise lawsuits, but the plaintiff has a point. The system should allow enough time for a person to get under the car before readjusting the height.
334 posted on 02/10/2006 8:42:57 AM PST by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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