> What I find funny is that from what I can tell the Tucker
> Torpedo had all
> these safety features and was pretty much put out of business
> for it. Now a
> few years later a guy rights a book and everyone now wants safe cars.
Tucker did design a lot of safety features into his cars. Although I do
giggle at the whole idea of a pop-out windscreen...hmm..you won't get
glass in your head, just scrape it on the pavement...
But my understanding is that it wasn't a lack of public interest that
sank Tucker, but rather an SEC investigation.
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