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Originally Posted by slowmover
Ancient history. The industry (car & tire makers) changed standards more than a decade ago.
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If manufacturers cared about efficiency or safety...
All these specifications are set by people who care more about the reactions of a focus group or the impact on their next quarterly report than anything else. The Explorer is just a well known, well documented example of the problem. Everything about the vehicle sucked on purpose and it turned fatal. The only thing that's really changed is that the suckage doesn't kill many people any more, but that's hardly a ringing endorsement.