If you bought a Ford vehicle voluntarily in the last 20 years, you were an idiot anyway. "Found On Roadside, Dead" is not just a slogan, it's a way of life.
If the electrical cord can be attached to the hydrogen tank with fatal results, I'd say it's not Bush who's the massive incompetent here, but rather the people at Ford.
I agree. At the surface, this sounds like a "please make us recall all the cars and sue us into oblivion" move. More likely nothing particular would have happened, and the man just wanted to aggrandize himself, a habit that has no doubt been encouraged by his closest subordinates for the last many years.
#1: I suspect that the "concept car" has all kinds of issues that would never make it into a production model.
#2: You can throw an electrical cord into a GASOLINE tank on a hybrid with potentially fatal results - and gasoline is much less explosive than hydrogen. The difference is that you're not supposed to actually plug in an unmodded hybrid, and if you know enough to mod your hybrid and add a plug, you hopefully know where the plug is.
I suspect the reason is two-fold: one, not having a cord makes for a less cluttered/messy look, and two, the socket allows Ford to justify a unique two-headed extension cord that only they will carry. Better yet, a two headed extension cord with an AC adapter.
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Date: 2007-04-09 03:44 pm (UTC)Hey!
Date: 2007-04-09 03:45 pm (UTC)D'Oh!
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Date: 2007-04-09 08:37 pm (UTC)#2: You can throw an electrical cord into a GASOLINE tank on a hybrid with potentially fatal results - and gasoline is much less explosive than hydrogen. The difference is that you're not supposed to actually plug in an unmodded hybrid, and if you know enough to mod your hybrid and add a plug, you hopefully know where the plug is.
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Date: 2007-04-10 12:28 am (UTC)Most electrical things have a cord with a plug that goes in to a socket. This thing has a socket that you plug a cord in to, and that's backwards.
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Date: 2007-04-10 12:04 pm (UTC)