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Originally Posted by redpoint5

The rollover controversy was due to severely underinflated tires.

Slate Magazine
The Dymaxion car: The true history of Buckminster Fuller's failed ...
Although Fuller implied that the crash irretrievably damaged the car's reputation, the word Dymaxion was absent from most news stories, and the positive coverage continued for a year and a half ...

An interesting story. Fuller's obfuscation, the wet street, it rolled three or four times, the single death could have been prevented if the vehicle had had a hard top.

The Ford Exploder is a production vehicle. The Dymaxion was the first of three pre-production prototypes.