The whole rollover thing was blown out of proportion: if you were a half intelligent driver you wouldn’t lock up the brakes whenever something odd happened, and the brake lockup was determined to be the root cause of the rollovers.
Ford is just trying to put this behind them so they’re paying some inept, incompetent whiners off. Of course the attorneys are the winners here. Just like in the Pinto case.
The whole rollover thing was blown out of proportion: if you were a half intelligent driver you wouldn’t lock up the brakes whenever something odd happened, and the brake lockup was determined to be the root cause of the rollovers.
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Driver error was a huge part of the problem,, the early explorers used a 235/75/15 “truck” tire (made by firestone and of mediocre quality) which also happens to be a common “car” tire size... most explorer buyers were (and are) women ,, the original tires had little extra load capacity and if run low on air could fail (not the manufacturers fault) ,, most of the explorers I remember seeing were running on (much cheaper) “car” tires ... a simple tire blowout in the hands of an experienced driver is basically a non-event,,, people who rolled were for the most part overcorrecting or using the brakes heavily or both.