TOP 15 ENGINEERING FAILS - what were they thinking?

Terribly inaccurate, with glaring mistakes between the script and the video. The Pinto never showed the actual tank drawings, the Chicago skyline and Hancock building were shown while discussing Boston's Hancock Center, etc. Sloppy

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.

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

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.

Crescent Dunes Solar Project in Nevada
Cost... ONE BILLION DOLLARS...........electricity produced today....ZERO
( Another victory for Green Energy Industry corruption)

Lots of mistakes in the stock photos, but a fun watch.

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.

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. The Chicago / Boston mixup here really takes the cake though. Shows just how lazy the preproduction really is.

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.

I guess the Oil rig explosion and fire of the PIPER ALPHA. The Space Shuttle Challenger was nothing important. This tragedy changed how NASA launched every mission since then The Rocker fuel storage facility in Nevada was a disaster never before experienced. With enough explosive force it rocked Las Vegas and shattered windows. The two ((2)) Boeing 747 crash on the runways on the Canary islands was the most extreme aircraft accident in recorded history..

No, the BP oil spill was number one. The Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska was number two. Everything else didn't really matter.

If you look at the statistics, you will find that the Ford Pinto was no more dangerous than any other vehicle when it came to rear end, collisions causing fires. In fact, there were other cars that were more dangerous, it’s just that the press in their typical fashion piled on the Pinto, and turned it into a Joke. And I’m not shilling for Ford, that’s just the fact.

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.

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.

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.

Interesting that the - unmanned - Ariane 5 mission is mentioned, while - manned - Apollo 13 mission is not. Is that because they made it back to earth? 🤔
Talking about American space flight missions: Where are the Space Shuttles Columbia and Challenger?

Mexico City: If corruption was an airplane , Mexico would be an airport......

Such overly dramatic language and over the top catostrophic descriptions everything just catostrophically ruins all the revolutionary progress that was going to revoutionize the whole world too stupid all his shit sounds the same and just repetitive

I think its hilarious one the mars rover thing. engineers cant even figure out imperial vrs metric hahahahahahaha engineers are even worse now.

"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."

Please do a better job of research and gathering footage. Use of unrelated images brings everything you do into question.

Why are there identical twins on each side of the bridge?:

The corruption inherent in the Hobbesian leviathan exemplified by communist government is why things like structure failures happen in China with something approaching regularity. It is so important to make communism and the communist party look good that to do anything which delays a project (such as performing proper site analysis of the ground where a structure is to be built) are skipped or done so incompletely that it might as well have not been done at all. Look up "tofu dreg".

This channel is so hyperbolic. Cant warch this. Unintelligent garbage.

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 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.

Loads of cars had the fuel tank at the back.

A building in China collapsed due to substandard materials and shoddy workmanship, surely not, they make all the best things on the planet, apart from everything they make that is, good job we don't have them building nuclear reactors..... oh shit we're doomed..... run for the hills.

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".

Regarding the ford pinto, I seriously doubt that not fixing the problem was an engineering decision. It was a ford management decision, the engineers probably lobbied to fix the problem correctly. It’s management that would say paying settlements is less expensive than fixing the engineering.

Did you just say Bostonians to the John Hancock Tower in Chicago? You need to fix the John Hancock one.

Why the fake photo? CLICK BAIT !!!

How could your editing be so bad to show 2 completely different buildings for the same story? Should be embarrassed. I mean you have to TRY to make such a huge blunder.

Then Ford put fuel tanks on the side of your trucks and the same thing happened. That's what. you get for buying a Ford, riduculed world wide as a non caring rubbish company, with rubbish cars.

SHIT happens.

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.

A lot of cars have the fuel tank behind the rear axel. It was really very common.

all cars have their gas tanks in the rear - there was not any pinto fires - the car just was poorly built.

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.

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.

Almost all cars have or had their fuel tanks in the rear under the trunk and could explode if hit "just right"! The Pinto problem was it so flimsily built it didn't take much to set it off and deserves the bad reputation...

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.

the only story that i know really well, the ariane 5 failure, is nothing like you tell it. which makes me think all other stories could be similarly bogus. so thumbs down.

The teams are so stupid (Americans)to mix up the systems just like they did with the Hubble. They should pay for the damage.

You need someone to think about your descriptions. For the Treton bridge collapse, you said of the drivers crossing when it happened, "the GROUND beneath them gives way". Ground? They were on a bridge above a river! Then there is the Mars Climate Orbiter that was described as "a contributor of orbital pollution", though orbit is exactly what it did not achieve and never did.

what about chernobyl???