TOP 15 ENGINEERING FAILS - what were they thinking?
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- čas přidán 11. 06. 2024
- Engineering is an exact science. One false calculation, and it’s all over. Engines can fail, buildings can collapse, and bridges fall into the sea. These instances serve as reminders that even the most advanced and carefully planned projects can encounter unforeseen challenges, resulting in remarkable blunders and valuable lessons. Join us for today's video as we count down the top 15 biggest engineering fails and mistakes.
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As a civil engineer, I MUST point out that every failure is not because of engineering. Contractors trying to earn more money will often build with cheaper materials, or do things like only putting in 4 bolts at a joint where 8 bolts were specified by the engineer. Manufacturers of materials will also produce substandard materials to ‘earn’ more money.
As the saying goes, engineers don’t make any more money specifying lower than adequate designs, but contractors and material manufacturers DO make more money shaving corners.
Another saying says “follow the money”. There is incentive ($) to actually build a structure poorly. The engineer gets paid the same no matter how it gets built.
It doesn’t say much for the city inspectors , bribed I suppose
Not every one of these failures was due to engineering mistakes, but some involved engineering along with other factors.
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Bert Meinders
I'm a mechanical engineer, and my experience of inspecting components outsourced to China or India has led me to the conclusion that both countries have been corrupt for so long that giving a customer exactly what is in the contract is seen as a sign of weakness (charging them for rework at New Zealand wage rates quickly improves their performance, though).
Regardless of the actions of the Cuntwreckers, distribuwhores, and "Skilled Poo Flingers" like me (Electrician), you do have a vested interest in making sure it was built the way you told them to.
Regardless of who winds up paying the Liability Suits, your image is still on the line.
But then, the ULTIMATE responsibility of oversight falls to THE DOLT WHO'S PAYING FOR IT.
You are showing John Hancock in Chicago, not the one in Boston that was once called the cardboard tower from boarding up windows when glass cracked or fell.
I was about to comment the same.
How many is there
Chris Farley had an apartment in the Chicago one.
The Hancock in Chicago simply goes by the name 875 N Michigan Ave at Hancock Company request since they’ve long left the building.
@@waynedesign i’m sure Chicagoans are going to actually honor that request 😂 much like they’ve embraced the name Willis Tower… It’s still the Sears tower
10:55 number 8, it starts with the John Hancock building in Chicago, but all of a sudden we are in Boston. Two things got messed up there 😉
Having dined on the 95th floor, I was alarmed to hear the building only has 60 stories ! 😂
He said Boston twice, but used footage that clearly says Chicago
This channel is kinda known for having really bad factual quality control, and they never go back and correct things so their vids are littered with misleading and nonfactual information.
Skylab did fall on Western Australia, but to say it fell on populated areas is a little dramatic. WA is the size of Western Europe, with the population of a single medium-sized city mostly concentrated in and around Perth.
The local council, where the pieces landed, decided to bring NASA'S stress levels, if they were elevated at all, back down to earth by sending them an official fine for littering.
LOLZ.
Oh yes, I remember that! Hilarious!!
That gave me the best laugh I had so far today!
Not only that The design was intentional not an engineering fail... if there was any failure it was on congress cost cutting.
I remember, people were evacuated from potential impact sites by helicopter - in which (statistically) they were 100x more likely to be killed. 🤣
When glass falls off a building, this is called glass falling. You learn something every day...
Who can remember such complex technical jargon? Hah ,I was ready to be enlightened by some cool term and instead wanted to slap the narrator.
Engineering failures? Several of these had nothing to do with the engineering but rather management decision failures. Ford Pinto for example.
Absolutely terrible disasters. There was one dog that lost its life in the Tacoma bridge collapse. Let's not forget it. 😢😢😢
Yes. For me the loss of a pet is indeed more than a casualty. Thank you for posting.
Someone tried to save it but it kept biting them so they had to run and got off just in time.
It was an American dog, so this qualifies the disaster to be number one and much higher that the Bhopal disaster, that only killed people in India. The bridge also wasn't that much of a mistake. It was a lesson that had to be learned sooner or later. In Bhopal, they learned how to avoid punishment for thousands of dead and hundred-thousands of injured people.
@@Ulrich.Bierwisch Bhopal killed a lot of livestock.
I'm glad you posted this. I did too, before I saw this post. Very sad about the dog, who had no say in being on the bridge.
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In Boston huh?
It even says in your footage that it’s Chicago.
The "minor rear-end collision" sequence at 5:14 was a SATIRICAL JOKE from one of those Zanuck/Ambrahams/Zucker movies like Police Squad or Naked Gun. The Jeep barely touches the Pinto but the setup tells you exactly what's going to happen, and it does. The car might genuinely have been a total death trap, but using this as an illustration of the failure, especially after multiple views of a legit crash test in which there's no conflagration at all, somewhat detracts from your credibility.
Thank you, came here to say that, but you said it better than I would have.
It comes from the 1984 film "Top Secret"
The mechanism for the horrific fires of the Pinto was the fuel tank being compressed between the rear bumper and the differential housing causing fuel to be sprayed beneath the hot engine and/or exhaust system and the fuel igniting after being heated past the flash point. A crash test of a rear end collision that did not have the Pinto's engine running might not ignite the furl.
@@richardbell7678
Bert Meinders
I have owned 18 cars, and at least 10, including my current VW Passat, had their fuel tank mounted under the rear load space, just like the Pinto. It's a very common location, so why don't other cars burn when similarly mistreated? Some other engineering fault, perhaps, like the PVC fuel lines Ford liked at that time?
@@bertmeinders6758 There seems to be some misguided assumption that a fuel tank is some kind of ticking time bomb. I have witnessed a crash with a fuel tank impacted and the fire emergency responders were not concerned...
@richardbell7678 As soon as the video mentioned the Pinto debacle, I was anticipating the use of that movie clip. As the military truck chasing the protagonists was slamming on its brakes, the camera zooms in on the Pinto nameplate on the rear of the (stationary) car, so the audience knew an explosion was imminent, the sight gag being that the truck barely nudged the Pinto's bumper, prompting it to explode.
Hancock building - thats Chicago, not boston. Your footage even shows the word "Chicago" while you say Boston.
Bhopal was horrible, and Union Carbide washed its hands
Fun fact, union carbide was also the company in that huge explosion that killed 11 firefighters in texas I think it was...
And Union Carbide still exists thanks to a good deal of money shuffling and asset-hiding, those bastards.
Definetly a mixup on the Hancock tower segment. First photos were not the Boston building.
Artz Pedregal was NOT a welcome addition to the neighborhood, and it's worth mentioning that the rooftop garden is suspected to be the issue. The part that failed was a cantilevered section; the hillside had nothing to do with it.
The Bhopal situation was more nuanced than that. Union Carbide was prevented by (corrupt?) local officials from having actual authority over it. They couldn't force the local owners to spend the funds necessary for badly needed maintenance and repairs - which was the eventual cause of the disaster.
Remember though, that the Skylab program relied on leftover parts from Project Apollo.
Skylab was the least of all the worries/failures in this compendium. It wasn't a disaster. If it's going to crash to earth, that's not the worst place to crash. While congress doomed it via cost cutting, it was pretty well handled. And you can't forget that the orbit dictates all the potential crash sites.
I'm old enough to remember it.
Usually, "engineering fails" aren't the engineer, but the "businessmen" in charge. Businessman builds something for profit, engineer builds for quality, businessman cuts corners, and the engineer gets saddled with the blame. Be careful who you work for. I've spent a fair bit of time getting away from people with bad business practices. So has my father who got the rare satisfaction of telling Ford to stuff their pride where the sun don't shine because their processes were screwing up one of his company's products.
why did you show the John Hancock Building in Chicago?
5:14 The scene from 1984's "Top Secret" with Val Kilmer, one of the best spoof films ever made (along with the Airplane and Hot Shots duologies).
Loads of cars had the fuel tank at the back.
Tacoma Narrows colapse. I've seen the fotage a hudred times and it never gets old. Just stunning.
It's crazy to think that there's still structures that were built 500 y.a.-1000 y.a. and some beyond that are still standing and yet with all the computers and materials used today even the most modern engineering fails. I mean roman concrete used in ancient viaducts is still holding up and used 1000 or more years after being built..
Mexico City is built on a reclaimed lake, it’s said to be like building on jelly.
And then there’s the forthcoming wave of problems generated by the cost-cutting use of RAAC ( lightweight aerated concrete), much of which is still in situ and well past its sell-by date.
One big problem has been overlooked with this video and thats, they get the money to build something but then think it will not require long term maintainance and this maintainance is either patched up or left and covered up. You can build miles and miles of roads but they will require regular maintenance which increaes in cost constantly.
This seems to be a common problem and politicians seem to often be reluctant to fund operating (maintenance) budget for that.
@@johfc Building new things (w/ tax $$) gets them praise and re-elected. Maint only gets under-table $$ money so there is less of that. Yet, they resurface perfectly good highways to keep the $$ flowing. Remember the "our bridges are falling down" which got a lot of attention and minimum taxpayer revolts? Alumchurcher is right too.
Human Engineering limitations are explored only after failures.
The video is showing the John Hancock Center in Chicago, which is 100 stories tall and not the building in question. Eventually it does depict the correct building, the John Hancock Tower in Boston.
So. You mention the Ford Pinto, but ignored the Austin Mini Metro, which had a very similar design flaw. As a survivor of the latter, I find that as negligent as the manufacturer who ignored the flaw by blaming the two million owners instead. And then there's the omission of the Space Shuttles Columbia and Challenger, which surely have to be the most well known engineering failures in NASA's history.
The NASA accidents were not engineering fails, but ADMINISTRATION FAILS
Well, in fairness engineers told NASA the o-rings weren't safe in temperatures that low, but their pleas were ignored by NASA's brass.
@@abc-wv4in Exactly my point.
obviously... that's not the Boston Hancock Tower they are showing, it's the Chicago Hancock building....Fun fact, it was referred to locally as "the worlds tallest toothpick" as the windows were replaced with plywood. The issue was a failt in securing the windows too tightly to the structure, introducing stress to the glass. When a catestrophic crack was about to occur, a small "J-shaped" crack would occur in the corner of the window. The windows were then removed and replaced (first with plywood, later with replacement windows). You used to be able to get a "defect window" for about $20, made great glass coffee tables.
I remember the Hancock tower mess. At one point, it was called the Plywood Palace, because of the plywood patches all over the outside of the building.
The Mars Rover debacle can only happen with the involvement of one of 3 nations: United States, Liberia, and Myanmar
Bert Meinders
The persistent attachment to the unnecessarily complicated Imperial system of weights and measures, lacking interoperability between science and engineering, causes headaches elsewhere too. Our CNC machining programmes supplied to an American licensee came back with the complaint: "Feed rates too high - tools keep breaking". The "problem"was that the licensee 's software automatically replaced the command G21 (mm per minute) with G20 (inches per minute).
Fuel tanks behind the rear axle were the norm back in the (pinto) day.
How is OceanGates Titan not on here?
The Citicorp Center in NYC should at least get honorable mention. If it weren't for a student reviewing the plans, it could have been a really huge disaster.
The Tacoma bridge collapse did have a victim. The driver of the only car on the bridge escaped but cruelly left his dog in the car to perish.
Yes, some others and I have commented on that. Makes me angry. The dog had NO say in the decision!
There were 3 failed attempts at saving the dog.
Coatsworth (dog owner) had made it about 450 feet onto the east side of the bridge when it began to violently sway, making the car stop. Coatsworth abandoned his car at first, then tried to go back for Tubby (dog), but the bridge shook too much.
A photographer colleague of Coatsworth happened to be there and tried to make it to the car but also had to turn back.
A third attempt was made by Professor F.B. Farquharson, an engineering professor at the University of Washington, who was there to document the bridge's frequent sways. Farquharson made it to the car and opened the rear door.
"He tried to calm the sick, terrified pooch, but Tubby snapped at the friendly hand, nipping the knuckle," according to the WSDOT.
Farquharson stumbled his way back off the bridge in the nick of time, and that section of the bridge collapsed moments later.
Excited, surprised, scared - this video took me through a whirlwind of emotions. Catastrophic failures are no joke!
Your comment however...🤣
The Pinto was one of Ford's best selling cars for its time, even with it's flaws!
Over three million Pintos were produced over its ten-year production run, outproducing the combined totals of its domestic rivals, the Chevrolet Vega and the AMC Gremlin.
Ford's analysis was correct they made just under $30,000,000,000.00 at $10,000.00 per unit sales, $50,000,000.00 in law suits
One great story my uncle who was Henry Ford Sr. valet, told was, one day Henry was at Fairlane Towne Center in Dearborn, Detroit ran into a lady on a Pinto in the parking lot.
He just told her it was his fault and said he would take care of everything. So, he had her follow him to a Ford dealership and told her she could have any car on the lot. The lady tried to select another Pinto, Henry said " No mama" and made her get a Lincoln Continental like his, uncle loved working for him!
Of course hindsight, Henry probably knew about the Pinto lawsuits too.😂
Henry Ford Sr. Died in 1947. Henry Ford Jr. Died in 1987. Nice story, wrong Henry.
Your report on the pinto is flawed. The first image and many others depicted a 1974 or later model. Staring in 1974, Ford discontinued the Pinto chassis and stretched the body over the Mustang II. A much-needed safer design. Most of the videos of the cars catching fire were staged
True, the big explosion was from the comedy movie Top Secret, starring the delightful Val Kilmer
Ironically, when the Pinto was first built, all the manufacturers put the gas tank in the rear of the car, and used the top of the tank as the bottom of the trunk. During the trial, Ford brought in the back halves of all the other car companies, showing they were doing the same thing.
From Paul Harvey's 'The Rest Of The Story' the engineer who placed the gas tank lost his father (at age 11 or 12) to a gas tank explosion in a Model T or Model A where the gas tank was in front of the wind shield. He schooled as an engineer and finally got a chance to locate a gas tank. In his mind was his fathers death so for safety he placed the gas tank as far away from the driver as possible. We know the rest of the story.
Deepwater Horizon was management failure.
@@maestroh2986”This is NOT Mel Torme…”
How many people die to “save money.”
Tretten brigde was a brand new type of brigde (steel and wood construction). Never been used in any other countries before, i wonder why???lol. Talkiing about removing the other 14 bridges which is build in Norway.
I love this series, it's eye-opening, however, most of the problems are due to badly built, cheap manufacturing, cheap materials & other cost-cutting procedures'. This therefore is unfair to be blamed on purely engineering issues. Still a great series though.
As a Construction Electrician, the Engineering and Architectural firms have a VESTED INTEREST in making sure -Cuntwreckers- CONTRACTORS, -DistribuWhores- err, DISTRIBUTORS, and us "Highly trained, skilled and educated Poo Flingers" ALL "doo" our jobs well.
THEIR NAME IS ON THE BUILDING TOO.
But, in many places, as long as "The RIGHT people" make money, "It's all Kewl, Brah, only peasants died." _See:_ "Tofu Dreg Construction."
And the Millenium Tower seems to be emitting that odor, too.
A new Meme Category: "Explain your trade badly."
"I'm an Electrician. I throw shi* at walls and MAKE it stick."
Oh, and in closing, it really doesn't matter who winds up paying the lawsuits at the end, the ULTIMATE responsibility of oversight falls to THE DOLT WHO'S PAYING FOR IT.
"Despite its horrific portrayal in Pinto Madness, published by Mother Jones magazine in its September/October 1977 issue, later fatality rate data revealed the Pinto to be on par with other subcompacts of the day and certainly not the threat it was purported to be in both print and broadcast media."
Name me just one Engineer or Architect that was held responsible for any of these non-accidents!
Only america could have headlines like "dozens killed in molasses flood that wipes out neighborhood" 😂
I still get irritated when I read someone talking about the twin towers (The World Trade Center) like they were a failure and placing some blame on them for collapsing and stuff like this let's people see what actual failures of buildings are. Far from being a failure in the engineering and building the towers actually held up remarkably well. A fully loaded 757 with full gas tanks of jet fuel hits pretty much any structure and it is coming down. The fact that they held together as long as they did and long enough for many to evacuate to safety is a beautiful thing. Especially the 2nd impact which took out basically 2 opposing corners of the building midway up. Talking about this brings back a lot and reminds us how stupid and short sided many people can be as they quickly forgot why we originally went to war over there.
There was a lot more to the mars climate orbiter than what’s described. There were overlooked indications for months something was off.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a promising new contender for The Cheesiest PhotoShopped Thumbnail of the Month!
The Quebec cantilever bridge collapsed during construction in 1907 causing about 80 fatalities (uncertain number) and then had the center span fall during its lift in 1916 for 11 more.
True! The designer of the original bridge was an American who would not listen to any criticism of his work, even though he was told that the bottom chords of the cantilever beams (the diamond shaped structures) were beginning to buckle.
The second failure was an accident. One of the hoisting shackles on the 5,000 ton centre section failed when this was hoisted into position. Non Destructive Examination of this shackle would likely have prevented such failure, but NDE was not available at that time.
The Pinto story is one of cost/benefit more than poor engineering. 3.2 million Pintos were sold and a gazillion miles driven in them. A relative few fires happened but garnered big headlines when Ford execs were shown to know a $2 part could have fixed the issue but they chose not to implement the change. The Pinto (failure) story is more a cautionary tale of how the media can corrupt actual events.
Galloping gerdy
Hey, the Simple History dude! Nice!
A lot of cars have the fuel tank behind the rear axel. It was really very common.
Yes, but the Pinto's was basically a part of the Bumper, itself.
I am like number 806
I remember watching a documentary about the start of the big dig mega project. I always wondered what happened to that thing!
I remember the Ford Pinto. My late father bought one off of my late husband's aunt. It was a stick shift and my father had mechanical problems with that and sold the car.
Terable disaster bridge colapse
skylab was a quintessential 1970s event. the chickens of the 1950s and 1960s were coming home to roost.
Most often, the engineer has not done eny calculation mistake. Instead he has been pressed to accept a certain probability of failur due to external forces to save costs.
8:50 the fact that $600,000 is now equivalent to 9 million is a testament to our shitty currency. Inflation must stop.
There was nothing "miraculous" about there being no casualties in the Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse. It was moving long before it actually collapsed and there wasn't a single person who would have been stupid enough to set foot on that bridge while it was moving like that.
Traces of the molasses can still be found today if you dig down about a foot and in the summer it can still be smelled
Lockheed Martin should take this one in the shorts. Common sense states to use the metric system;as the Imperial system is used by very few countries in general. All science oriented projects I am aware of use the Metric system
Hubble telescope lens was ground to specs but with the wrong unit / mismatch. They had to make, and fly up, a correction when flaw was realized.
With that being said about the Pinto the next generation has the torch flamming electric vehicles
The Mars Climate Orbiter crash was blamed on mixing "Imperial" units with metric units, this same type of problem resulted in the Hubble Space Telescope producing blurred images until it was fitted with correcting lens by the Space Shuttle team.
This phenomenon known as 'glass falling' duh.
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge is a "relatively" minor engineering disaster.
Expensive and embarrassing but at least no human lives were lost.
A dog in a car on the bridge was killed.
This was designed at a time when they didn't have computers to model structures and they tried to cut corners without a thorough analysis.
The problem encountered by the Tacoma Narrows Bridge was recognized by Engineer Roebling when he designed the Brooklyn Bridge in the mid 1880's. His bridge was completed in 1883 or so and is still in use.
Roebling made notes that the inclination in designing a suspension bridge was to make the bridge deck insufficiently stiff. This has nothing to do with the live load strength of the bridge, but impacts its resistance to deformation by external forces such as high winds. Roebling was correct, and his recommendations were ignored by SOME subsequent bridge designers.
Other bridges have encountered this wind flutter problem also, and remedial work was carried out to stop this fluttering.
In order to create something safe it have to go through accidents that sadly takes lives.
They still make bridges out of wood? That's insanely dangerous! What happens when some crazy bastard decides to light it on fire?
Basically, every car built for about 100 years had the fuel tank where ethe Pinto did, a ton of cars today still do.
There was one casualty of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge disaster, a dog named Tubby.
The unfortunate Tubby, who was a terrer, as I recall, was callously left behind in the car that was stranded on the undulating section of the middle of the bridge. The driver had stupidly driven out onto this section even though it was already moving dangerously and when he was unable to go any further, he jumped out and crawled, then ran, to safety. Why he didn't at least open a door for his pet to allow it to also escape has bothered me for years. A small 4-footed dog with a low center of gravity would've been far better suited to deal with these conditions than a tall 2-footed human.
Galopping Gertie never grows old...
I'm pretty certain that, while the car had shortcomings, most of the negative press about the Pinto was from doctored events. In the case of the explosion, the story goes that they actually couldn't get the fuel tank to ignite the first few times they tried to rear-end the car. So they gave up and used explosives.
I have driven many times over tretten bridge with my 4 ton worktruck.
About the pinto. I remember pretty much of ALL American passenger cars in the 70's had the fuel tank in the rear under the trunk behind the rear axle.
Ford did do a program to make the Pinto safer. They came up with a urethane liner for the gas tank that was virtually puncture proof, they added anti lock brakes, air bags which made it the safest car in the US........ and then they cancelled the Pinto all together. Like what GM did with the Corvair.
I'll have whatever you are smoking. Anti lock brakes and air bags? Give examples. You won't find any. The Pinto's production ended in 1980. Ford had an experimental fleet of cars in 1971. EXPERIMENTAL. The 1984 Topaz offered air bags as optional equipment.
Ford offered Anti Lock brakes on the Thunderbird and Lincoln Continental in 1969. Standard in 1971. Expensive cars. Never offered on a Pinto that was built to a price.
@@dlewis9760
Way to go editing on the John Hancock building. You had one job.
The Big Dig sounds like Californias Train to Nowhere. The train is taking 5-10 times as long to build and will cost billions more than originally thought.
Lots of mistakes in the stock photos, but a fun watch.
27:00 Tacoma Bridge had 'waved' for months! (nicknamed Galloping Gertie) just up-down. That new twisting did it in. A car was abandoned; dog in it bit a would-be rescuer so was left and died.
Should've left the car door open. And the idiot who owned the car shouldn't have brought the dog to begin with!
These homes are built base on the DESIGN of a NETTLE or WASP
NEST, including the home of PIGEON COUP. The wasp or nettles
are very smart especially the PIGEONS because after a while they
abandoned the nest and coup.
The thumbnail gave me all i needed to know about this video
In the past we had alot of small cars with its petrol tank under the trunk in europe. The problems were more like the other tank-like built 2-3ton cars at that time in the US. They smashed everything in their path.
The Pinto was originally designed with an internal bladder inside the gas tank and with airbags. Tests were done with both of the items installed and as a result there were no explosions and the test dummies were undamaged. If Ford had installed the equipment, it would have been the safest car on the road.
You are absolutely correct here. The bladder was removed due to it's cost. Another contributor to the problem was the filler neck. There was no allowance for any movement so if you were rear ended and your tank shifted at all, the filler neck would tear loose allowing fuel and fuel vapour to escape. If there was any source of ignition nearby, boom, up went your pinto.
The Tacoma Narrows bridge failed due to the design & construction flaw. It was determined in the inspection of the debris on the site of the collapse, vents through the deck were not included in the design & construction. When the winds picked up to 40 MPH, the bridge deck acted like an airplane wing and tried to take off. Since then, all suspension bridges have vents that allow airflow through the bridge deck. No more "Galloping Girdies".
The windows falling out of the Hancock tower was just the tip of the iceberg. it actually could have fallen over on it's narrow edge into the South End under the right circumstances. This fact was kept from Bostonians as extensive work, including the addition of a large concrete counter weight on one of the upper floors was installed.
You should do a video on our new Highspeed line called HS2.
It's turning into an expensive disaster.
Costs had risen from £55 billion to £105 billion so they've actually had to reduce its length so it now won't serve Northern towns and won't be going into the centre of London
20-20 hindsight is a wonderful thing...
Taking many forms over the decades, you can have everything else right but if poor quality or wrong composition can end in failure or disaster, wether it be a building or machine. In a modern example, look at the problem of block cracks penetrating the water jacket on the Honda R18 engines.
There is a saying,What can happen,will happen.
The Design,Materials,Specifications,Etc.,are of the Utmost Importance.
Weather Conditions,Earthquakes,Etc.,are out of our control.
I believe in leaving no stone unturned.What ever we do in Life,
we cannot have 100% Perfection.We can work towards it.
I am an Engineer.
The Pintos concept of putting the gas tank in the rear was actually standard practice then and always has been. Where else do you put a tank holding 15 gallons of fluid. Very few cars do not have the fuel tank in the rear of the car.
The Pinto was not an engineering mistake, the bean counters saved a couple of dollars by using a fuel tank made of cheap plastic, a metal or better plastic would have been ok
The Pinto story is not as explained. ALL manufacturers made the same cost analysis and they all went the same way. Pinto fell firmly in the middle of averages of fires during accidents, being better than many well-regarded cars. The story became legend simply because Nader, et al got ahold of the internal documents of Ford and published them. Side note: the red car tapped by the army truck was filmed as a parody.
To drop in the Tacoma Narrows Bridge as an engineering failure I thought was a bit unfair. My understanding is at the time that engineers did not understand the resonance of structures (or materials) and what that could endue, with the effect of the bridges failure demonstrating. My point is that the structure was designed to the best knowledge of structural design at the time.
Agreed, but best design at the time obviously wasn't good enough. Since then bridges are designed with wind effects in mind.
The carelessness in choosing video clips extends beyond the conflation of the Hancock Tower in Chicago with the Hancock Building in Boston; many of the clips in the Tacoma Narrows Bridge section show the modern two-span version of the bridge (built in 1950 and 2007). In addition, the script writer missed a great story opportunity: even while under construction the bridge would twist and buck during windy days, so much so that the construction workers called it Galloping Gertie. And one main problem was not mentioned: both longitudinal and lateral girders were solid (rather than latticed), allowing the wind to push and lift the span which then responded rhythmically, eventually tearing itself apart. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_(1940)
@@thomasmaughan4798 The Brooklyn Bridge, the Golden Gate Bridge, and others, are all still in service. The aero elastic instability was recognized by Engineer Roebling when he designed the Brooklyn Bridge in the mid 1800's.
I like how you used the Pinto scene from "Top Secret"
Sometimes "thinking out side the box" can be catastrophic when you don't have a clue as to what you're doing.
#11 -- wow, all that, and *nothing of what actually caused it to fail.* _Great_ reporting!!
I.M. Pei is well known for getting stuff that often looks striking, but rarely functions well. An example of this is the white-tile covered building he designed for Harvard, which looks like a low-rent bathroom, and is well known as the "Pei Toilet".
As to space launches, I recall many many decades ago -- the 70s or 80s -- I was in West Palm Beach at the time, about 120 miles south of Cape Canaveral. I was walking through the neighborhood, with a clear view to the north at one moment, when I saw a bright light -- clearly a launch -- rising into the sky. Everything was going fine, when suddenly the bright light turned into a giant white puffball. Apparently, something went wrong with the launch, and it had to be self-destructed.
"Leaving a lasting mark on the Gulf of Mexico...". Stop parroting environmentalist bullshit. No, this was not a trivial failure, no argument. But go find a *_single, solitary, reliable study_* that shows any kind of lasting impact, now, only 13 years later, on the Gulf. I'm sure you can find some issues remaining, but the fact is, there are significant _natural_ releases of raw petroleum regularly, into the oceans. The ocean has mechanisms in place to resolve them relatively quickly. And we humans also have been working to find ways to mitigate such accidents, as well. The net result is, that, while very much a nontrivial event, it *_hardly_* left a "lasting impact" on the Gulf.
And YES, the real fact is, you just have to watch one of the many documentaries now, 13y later, detailing the awful, horrific, "lasting" impact of the spill on the Gulf, graphically showing just what a total environmental catastrophe it so clearly... OH... wait!! ... there ARE no such documentaries... WtF??
RIGHT. It's been overblown to an extreme how serious those "long-term effects" are. *As is so often the case with such things.*
Nothing about the Exxon Valdez, 10, 20, 30y later, either, strangely enough.
And, with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, your marvelous journalistic skills come once more into play, making it sound as though there was no sign of a problem before the day of the failure. The actual fact is, the bridge was known to have issues with "flutter" since its opening. This is shown in the local nickname for the bridge, "Gallopin' Gertie".... The day of the collapse seemed like any other, but in fact the winds crossed a threshold and the flutter kept getting worse and worse, with the results shown in your videos.
"Astonishingly, there were no casualties"? From WHERE, ffs. You can SEE the damned thing waving like a drunken stripper on holiday! *Would YOU go out on that thing when it's doing that?* Everyone fled, some of them abandoning their cars on the bridge. The closest thing to a casualty was when some jackwad idiot left his poor dog trapped in his car when he abandoned the car and ran off, and someone went out and rescued the pooch. SMH.
You guys really suck. Learn to write better, learn to research better.
Sadly , the doggie perished ,,it panicked and wouldn't get out of the car you can see on the bridge when it goes,,Also ,,there are numerous natural oi; leaks in the gulf,,there is that much oil there it oozes out of the bottom of the sea/gulf whatever,,
I couldn't have said it better. This entire video is rife with disinformation and incredibly poor research prior to going to video.
While it's true that the UCAR plant in Bhopal was being run very poorly and maintenance was sadly lacking, that was not the reason for the release. The real reason (I read the official report since I was in the industry) was the fact that there hap been some work going on involving the 12" vent line coming off the tanks. It was found during the investigation that the workers had missed installing a blind on a tee and had handed the plant back to UCAR. Since there was no audit done on the work, this detail was overlooked. When they needed that line to reduce the over pressure it just dumped the contents straight into the atmosphere. I've done work for UCAR in the past and this is typical of many of the facilities they operate worldwide.
Well said, thank you.
It's interesting how this picture you're showing of bridge/highway collapse has the men all dressed the same as well as everyone is standing in the exact same position on both sides of the highway.
The Pinto? The issues and deaths associated with the Pinto was nothing compared to the mustang as the fuel tank and fill nozzle design were just as serious.
Parking Garage Fiasco:
Electric cars are HEAVIER than gas cars.
Why was this ignored?
The wrong Hancock tower is shown for much of that segment but ok😎🤓
I noticed that too, as I've been up the tower in Chicago, and thought 'wait a minute'