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Re: Smart ForTwo Explodes After Owner Accidentally Fills Air Intake With Petrol by kolaaderin: 7:41am On Dec 23, 2017
Nutase:
The person that designed this crazy car should be handed over to SARS to blow his testicles off.
Obviously the designers are not smart at all and they are making millions of dollars off this presumed to be smart people.
Re: Smart ForTwo Explodes After Owner Accidentally Fills Air Intake With Petrol by LordReed(m): 8:31am On Dec 23, 2017
Automotive1:
If you're wondering how it's possible for someone to confuse a car's air intake with its fuel filler, look no further than the design of Smart cars themselves, which have almost identical ports located on each of the rear fenders. One is the fuel filler, and the other is the intake for the rear-mounted engine.

[img]https:///a/img923/5461/x5B034.jpg[/img]

The actual fuel cap is on the right-hand side and air intake left-hand side of the 2005 Smart Fortwo Pulse model. Users on Smart car forums have made the same mistakes

The air intake requires a bit more effort than the fuel filler to open and is stamped with NO FUEL on the inside, but without a doubt it's a needlessly confusing design.

It's since been updated to look like an actual air intake on newer cars, but that doesn't do much for the owners of older models.


Source https://autojosh.com/smart-fortwo-explodes-owner-accidentally-fills-air-intake-petrol/

When smart turns dumb. Which stupid car designer decided that it was a good idea to design the air intake to look like the fuel cap in the same position as a fuel cap?

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Re: Smart ForTwo Explodes After Owner Accidentally Fills Air Intake With Petrol by Nobody: 8:55am On Dec 23, 2017
Lack of Prevention Through Design + Human Error = High Risk

High Risk = High Accidents Frequency Rate and/or High Consequence Accidents Rates.

Safety Engineers can relate.

Re: Smart ForTwo Explodes After Owner Accidentally Fills Air Intake With Petrol by jenkinsroscoe87: 9:30am On Dec 23, 2017
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Re: Smart ForTwo Explodes After Owner Accidentally Fills Air Intake With Petrol by Nutase: 9:36am On Dec 23, 2017
mofedamijo:

And what if it was designed by a lady?
probably she was on her period when she designed the car so she should be pardoned.
Re: Smart ForTwo Explodes After Owner Accidentally Fills Air Intake With Petrol by Neddyogu(m): 10:30am On Dec 23, 2017
NwanyiAwkaetiti:
She can sue the the manufacturers for putting identical holes with different functions in d car.

Was that her first time fuelling the bloody car?
Re: Smart ForTwo Explodes After Owner Accidentally Fills Air Intake With Petrol by Nobody: 10:53am On Dec 23, 2017
ok.
Re: Smart ForTwo Explodes After Owner Accidentally Fills Air Intake With Petrol by Nobody: 1:32pm On Dec 23, 2017
Neddyogu:


Was that her first time fuelling the bloody car?
Let's look for her and ask

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