Shortly thereafter, both NHTSA and the carmaker repeated the side-impact and rollover test on at least two other cars, all to no effect.
Main Outcome Measures: The physical performance battery was composed of the 50-foot speed walk, 5-minute walk, repeated trunk flexion, sit to stand, loaded reach, rollover tasks, and Sorensen upper-body lift.
The trading practice is called a historic rate rollover, and while it is not illegal its repeated use by the Baltimore trader should have signaled to others in the currency market that something suspicious was going on, foreign exchange traders said.
As they have been doing ever since the rollover to 2000 occurred on Saturday with no major disruptions, computer experts and government officials repeated their convictions that testing in recent years had amply proved that the threat had been real.
Despite repeated attempts by Ford and Firestone to win a postponement (Ford eventually settles the vast majority of its rollover suits), a Corpus Christi judge has set the case of Donna Bailey -- the quadriplegic in Houston -- for trial on Jan . 8
But the publicity surrounding the accident near San Diego, and Toyota's repeated inability to quell consumer concerns with a definitive solution, has also prompted a flood of lawsuits reminiscent of the litigation a decade ago arising out of the rollovers of Ford Explorers equipped with Firestone tires.
In the two days of questioning, Mr. Nasser repeated much of the testimony given last fall and spring to Congressional investigators, including the company's opinion that the problem of tire tread separation and rollover accidents was related only to the tires and not Ford vehicles.
"We hope the FCA's proposals will address some of the areas of consumer detriment, but on issues such as affordability checking, rollover and repeat borrowing, there is an urgent need for even more radical reform".
Not all rollovers resulted in death.
That makes rollovers akin to car cancer.
