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...Officer Andrew T. Gilbert slides behind the wheel of Car 296, an almost new Ford Crown Victoria. He flips the lights on, bleeps the siren once and tests the headlights...
Many tire experts think that long after the blame game has cooled down, Ford and Firestone will discover there was no single defect but a combination of factors that may have led to the failures. "You've got a vehicle with marginal stability and a tire that is marginal," says Dick Baumgardner, a former Firestone engineer who now examines tire accidents for legal cases. "Put them together, and you've got a disaster." Pull them apart, and in addition to the human toll, you've got all the makings of a nasty corporate pileup...
Back in the 1970s, when the 55-m.p.h. speed limit was established, U.S. tiremakers were introducing steel-belted radials--now standard on most American cars, including the Ford Explorers. Even in the '70s the fatal consequences of tread separation were well known. And so were a number of remedies, including the use of nylon caps that form a tourniquet around the belts and rubber to hold them together. Nylon caps are widespread in Europe and other parts of the world, but with U.S. speed limits set low, most experts believed they weren't necessary in America...
...quadriplegic; the case is on appeal. According to plaintiffs' lawyers and experts, the STL studies document on video what happens to major-brand-name radials as their inflation is reduced: none of the tires suffer fatal tread separation if they have nylon caps. Last week Ford urged Firestone to recall its Wilderness AT tires in Venezuela because they lacked the caps...
What is the mountain's name?" Don Domingo asks, in the Quechua language, from the back of the Ford Club Wagon...