{"id":1000530,"date":"2007-04-08T09:49:06","date_gmt":"2007-04-08T14:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/software-development\/user-interface\/2007\/04\/08\/hydrogen-car-makes-nancy-pelosi-president-almost\/"},"modified":"2007-04-08T17:08:39","modified_gmt":"2007-04-08T22:08:39","slug":"hydrogen-car-makes-nancy-pelosi-president-almost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/software-development\/user-interface\/2007\/04\/08\/hydrogen-car-makes-nancy-pelosi-president-almost\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydrogen Car Almost Makes Nancy Pelosi President"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the Detroit News<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\nCredit Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally with saving the leader of the free world from self-immolation.\n<\/p>\n

\nMulally told journalists at the New York auto show that he intervened to prevent President Bush from plugging an electrical cord into the hydrogen tank of Ford’s hydrogen-electric plug-in hybrid at the White House last week. Ford wanted to give the Commander-in-Chief an actual demonstration of the innovative vehicle, so the automaker arranged for an electrical outlet to be installed on the South Lawn and ran a charging cord to the hybrid. However, as Mulally followed Bush out to the car, he noticed someone had left the cord lying at the rear of the vehicle, near the fuel tank.\n<\/p>\n

\n“I just thought, ‘Oh my goodness!’ So, I started walking faster, and the President walked faster and he got to the cord before I did. I violated all the protocols. I touched the President. I grabbed his arm and I moved him up to the front,” Mulally said. “I wanted the president to make sure he plugged into the electricity, not into the hydrogen This is all off the record, right?”\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

OK. So our illustrious leaders are a few homeworks short of a gentleman’s C, and I’m not too surprised that a major CEO would think they can’t be trusted to figure out which end of the car to plug an extension cord into. However here’s my question:<\/p>\n

Just what the hell is Ford doing building a car that can blow up and kill people if some random idiot (or the President of the United States) sticks the plug into the wrong hole?
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Cars are off-the-shelf consumer products, albeit expensive ones. They’re dangerous enough when moving. Nothing a user can do with one when it’s standing still should have any possibility of killing the so-called leader of the free world, no matter how big an idiot he is. <\/p>\n

If it’s really possible to immolate one’s self and various bystanders by sticking an extension cord into the fuel tank, then there’s a major design flaw in Ford’s Airstream Concept. If this isn’t fixed before they go to market, this is going to make the Ford Pinto fiasco look like a problem with the chrome logo falling off in a bad rain. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the Detroit News: Credit Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally with saving the leader of the free world from self-immolation. Mulally told journalists at the New York auto show that he intervened to prevent President Bush from plugging an electrical cord into the hydrogen tank of Ford’s hydrogen-electric plug-in hybrid at the White […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-user-interface","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}