The WV diesel cheat was discovered by some collage students and did not have a standard test rig and put all the testing equipment inside the car and drove it on the street. The program reduced the power and emissions when only the drive wheels were spinning and the other wheels were stationary. So technically it was reducing emissions but only during the test.
Were I live, all wheels are stationary during the tailpipe test. It's something they learned after they had a few incidences with AWD vehicles. Maybe they had that mode covered too.
The Volkswagen clean diesel scandal was a little more complicated than indicated in this video. Standardized testing such as that done by the EPA, or cities with their own smog emissions testing would all indicate that everything was fine and the emissions were well within acceptable limits. What happened was three college students conducted their own testing with the vehicles while the vehicles were actually driving on roads rather than stationary and hooked up to a testing device. For example, the cheat software built into the cars would greatly limit the emissions of the vehicle if various sensors detected that the vehicle wasn’t moving but the engine was under load- as what happens during all standardized testing. Once the sensors realized the vehicle was moving (everyday driving) it allowed the engine to produce emissions that were exponentially higher than allowed. This is why their engineering seemed so amazing at the time. They were seemingly able to get all the benefits of a diesel; great fuel economy and plenty of power, without the extremely high emissions. Despite it being proven that the upper echelon of Volkswagen’s engineering and executive personnel knew all about it, no one spent a day in prison for it.
Yeah it certainly wasn't the EPA discovering the issue. Pretty sneaky cutting the power produced under testing conditions to levels that would've been completely unacceptable to consumers to reduce the apparent emissions and pass the test Just a big a crime to me, is how complicated unrealistic the EPA tests for MPG are compared to real world driving. Supposedly companies have complained and filed lawsuits b/c they knew their customers would be upset when the car the purchase never gets close to the milage the EPA ratings report.
That's not always the case. Liberty ships were built with the intention / expectation they'd only need to survive crossing the atlantic 3 times. Not round trips, just 3 times across the ocean. It was found that the ships had an engineered weakness in the middle of the hull that would often lead to the 3 *week* old ship breaking in half. Later a stiffener was added amidships and some liberty ships were still in use in the 70's. With bulk crude tankers, many of the smaller vessels are operating on 1960s equipment / technology. Panamax and Suezmax are the normal tanker being built, with the smaller units being used mainly as ferries for shallow water ports. This was a ship that had been used up already, but the owners were going to use it till it sank.
No, because in the video the guy filming said that he was "pretty sure that is a Lambo" which I think is such an embarrassment I would never show that video again.
I know the captain with the oil spill deserves blame, but common we need some kind of EU law that says you can't refuse a leaking oil tanker help, just because you are afraid of the mess. The countries must have known it would become worse the longer they couldn't dock.
During the Hoover free flights offer, I bought a Hoover Vacuum Cleaner for £109, got the voucher and prmpltly sold the Hoover to my next door neighbour for £90 and ended up with the flights.
*I bought a Wet & Dry Cleaner from Hoover and still have it in Mint Condition - Got me 2 Weeks Holiday Free in Orlando with my family of 3 Kids and my Wife - but the best of it is paid a bit extra and got upgraded to a better Hotel (Forgot the name) and Free Breakfasts !*
"When the jar of peanut butter goes crashing to the floor, then gets mooshed into the carpet by the kid that lives next door. Don't reach for the broom and dust pan or that old Electrolux. Reach for Hoover....it really sucks!" -- commercial for Hoover written by Barry Manilow 😂😂😂😂😂😂❤
@@dlb4900in the '90s my second job was an Electrolux salesman. I also had a 1950s model for use in my home. Every once in awhile if I had a customer that was almost ready to buy but I couldn't quite get them to close the deal. I would break out the '50s model & show the power that it still has. Talk about closing a deal quickly, I could almost eat the fat lady singing the second I hit the power button. 😅😂
There was another incident where a guy hired a new Audi RS4 and did a track day. He went off the track and wrecked one side of the car so he staged a road crash to cover his arse. Unfortunately for him someone had been filming that day and put the recording on the internet!
I wondered about that - the insurance will pay out if you swerve for a pelican, but they won't pay out if the car goes into the water for a driver-related issue? Seems odd to me!
This was common knowledge in the UK by a LOT of MOT testers and mechanics - and was common in FAR more vehicles than just VW. It was very much an open secret as at the time, sidestepping nanny-state rules wasn't illegal just "creative". Now of course, all the owners who have campaigned for the RIGHT to have their engines "updated", now realise they have lost economy and lost performance. No great surprise to anyone that understands the BASICS of stochiometric combustion (while allowing a tiny bit rich). But so many owners seem genuinely surprised that the engine firmware was designed to give the best performance / economy balance all along - and just run like a pig to get through the emissions. Now it just runs like a pig ALL the time.
I find it so irritating that Americans insist on appending -gate to every scandal since Watergate. There was actually a hotel named The Watergate, whereas Dieselgate is a made-up word.
@@guyteigh3375 it wasn't in the firmware, it was software. (The difference being one is stored physically in a chip, the other is stored magnetically on a disk/drive) the software would be "written" by the car as soon as it thought it was on a dynometer. it was a fill-in-the-blank bit of code that used current perhiprials (Values of readings from sensors) to remap the fuel trim on the fly. It also tends to drive mechanics nucking futz when one minute you get one set of values and the next the car "Figures itself out" without you doing a thing. We kept fighting vacuum leaks in the emissions system, with the normal run condition active it'd run like crap as it tried to overfuel. Stick it in EPA mode and all of a sudden the car purred like a kitten as it leaned out a bit...
The story about the Boeing 737s getting scrapped because of a train derailment is jaw-dropping! 😱 It’s a stark reminder of how one oversight can lead to astronomical losses. Great video compiling these stories. It really puts into perspective the domino effect in these situations.
More jaw dropping to see how weak and fragile they are not flying on one of their aircraft again no chance of living even if it just crashes at take off.
When this happened, they were probably intended for the 737NG. If it had happened a few years latter, it would have been 737MAX fulilages. Given how many problems have shown up with that model, those might have been better off scrapped.
There’s one where a mars probe was programmed in feet but the measurements were done in meters. And then there was the exon Valdez spill. Drunk captian.
@@basillah7650 No aircraft fuselage is going to survive a train derailment. The stresses of rail transport are very different from flight stresses. In flight, the weight of the fuselage is borne by the wings. On the tarmac, the weight is borne mostly by the main gear, which is under the wings. In both instances, the weight is supported at the center of gravity. They do not make fuselage transporting rail cars. For rail transport, wheel trucks are fastened to the nose and tail of the fuselage, so the weight of the fuselage is not supported at the middle, but at the ends. With the ends hanging off of the middle, the bottom is compressed and the top is in tension. Supported only at the ends, the top is compressed and the bottom is in tension. This is a reversal of the normal state of affairs, so an engineer crunched the numbers and determined that expected railway conditions would not break anything, but derailments are unexpected events.
The $135,000,000 price tag to repair the sub is mindblowing. I mean, knowing just a little about construction, and having been a mechanic, both automotive and marine, for a couple of decades, coming up with costs to add up to that amount is insane. Figure materials, man hours and the probably most expensive thing, tech, it's still hard to bring it up to that figure! The amount of money spent on government contracts is obscene. And that figure was just to replace the nose cone portion of the sub! It shows one of the many examples of how prices have been driven up by people valuing their R & D at pretty much any dollar figure they like. (it's one of the major forces behind pharmaceutical pricing)
1: The San Francisco's reactor had just been refuelled, which is a very expensive once-in-a-lifetime event for those reactors. The Navy had just put a huge amount of money into modernizing the sub; writing it off would have made that a waste. 2: The SF was barely halfway through her expected life. At the time, she was expected to remain in service until 2017; she ended up staying until 2022. If she had been retired, the Navy would have had to make up for her loss by either cutting the downtime and maintenance intervals of other submarines (which you know wears them faster and increases the risk of major failure) order a fully new submarine to replace her, which would have cost much more than $135 million and taken several years to be completed. 3: They saved costs where possible. They didn't actually repair the SF's bow; they replaced it with the bow of USS Honolulu, which was soon to be retired and had not received the refuelling and upgrades mentioned in 1. For comparision, it was initially estimated that modernizing Honolulu to replace SF would have cost $90 million MORE than SF's repair cost.
The SF was never able to be returned to service. The costs were to retrofit it as a training ship. I was on another submarine at the time and I can tell you from the photos, you can see the doors to the occupied parts of the ship. They were literally inches from losing the entire ship.
The Volkswagen crisis really got to me. Imagine just how many previous awful things they would have gotten away with to get the confidence to sell many thousandths of cars with literal evidence of fraud inside all the cars.
Greek shipping company, Greek captain, Panamanian registry . . . I would not have trusted them to haul a boat-load of poop. You know what happens when you turn your back on a Greek? You get an enlarged bunghole.
The most beautiful, soothing and pleasent voice on TH-cam... I could hear you narrate the weather or even the a "To Do" list... Keep on bringing joy to our ears...
This is so cool!!!!! I'm actually FROM Victorville California, and I'm pretty sure I've actually seen the Volkswagen graveyard!!!! I think we also had one for planes... Admittedly, I was a child that didn't care (hence my uncertainty) but now I want to look for them the next time I'm visiting family!!! ........ not like there's much else to do in Victorville 🙄
Yep bought cheapest Hoover product over £100, persevered with the faff of application and jumped thru all the loopholes. Had 2 Fabulous weeks in Florida.. thank you Hoover
I remember that huge oil spill. I'm in the UK and was in the last year of primary school while that was going on, the teachers used it as a subject, and we started designing gadgets that could lift oil off the top of water. Interesting lessons!
9:22 You have to watch the real video. It's embarrassing to drive into a lake, but even more embarrassing is the one filming saying he is "pretty sure that's a Lambo"
I remember the Ratners incident. For years after my family would say something was Ratners 😂😂 He absolutely shot himself in the foot big time, total divvy 😂😂😂
You're estimate of 90 million per aircraft body is wayyyy off, like stupid off. 90 million is the price of BUILT plane, just the body itself is probably no where close to that
When they were starting production on the first Star Wars movie, George Lucas negotiated with Fox studios that he would have a smaller salary in exchange for 2 things: 1. Be in charge of future instalments 2. The merchandising rights Fox studios agreed since they didnt have much faith in that movie. Needless to say, you can imagine how much money they just gave up to Lucas.
Wow. $90 million for just a fuselage. Image how much it would cost after you add the engines, wings, avionics, electric, plumbing, galleys, seats, lighting, gear, etc. (Or perhaps the estimate is a tad high)
@@jorgeb9715 My comment was sarcastic. $90 million is the cost of a competed 737. Ready to fly. You can get a brand new 747 for about $450 million. For $600-800 million, you've left the commercial aviation world and are looking into a private, and fully decked out, Airbus A380.
Here we go again. 0:33 Boe-No-Ing 2:22 Crap Deal 4:48 Crash Landing 8:12 Bugatti Baddie 10:02 Supercar Stunts 11:48 EMission Issues 13:50 Prestigious Problems 16:03 Lake Peigneur 18:17 A Missed Opportunity 20:00 Another Missed Opportunity 21:26 Going Under 22:50 USS San Francisco…No 25:02 *Outro*
THE fun part of the hoover-miscalculation (besides violating consumer trust) is, that they also completely satiated the market, and a lot of their product was resold-as-used, causing them to compete for sales with their own past mistakes in more than 1 way.
And now, I shall quote to the 10 supercars jack-knife incident. “It’s a hard dilemma. Would you rather injure someone with an enormous vehicle or rather allow supercars worth millions of dollars to be severely damaged and the worth becomes valueless?” - YES ESCAPE, 2024
The bean counters probably would have said the lawsuits by the cyclists would be cheaper than the loss on the super cars. Blast the hell out of the trucks air horns. If they won't move out of the way quickly oh well.
The driver is likely driving too fast for the condition. The trailer with no sides are not as affected by the wind as a regular trailer. He is lying. I fire him.
Do you want me to point out every single mislabeled car on that graphic for the trailer? The Aston Martin you showed was not, in fact, a DB11, but merely a DB9. The two Ferraris weren't $100,000-$200,000 F430s, but two $3,000,000-$4,000,000 Ferrari Enzos, which would have made this a much more expensive accident. The Aventador you showed, while still being an Aventador, was a higher trim SV, rather than the base trim, the LP700-4. That nissan GT-R wasn't an R35 trim, but a Nismo, which is a more track focused variant. I believe that all the cars damaged were correctly named, but that animated images you showed were slightly off.
On one hand, this is totally an ACKSHULLY post. On the other hand, it is a lot of neat information from a topic you're passionate about and I think that's really cool. I hope you have a nice day.
I had a close call with a mistake that would have cost tens of thousands. Was working at a body shop for flash cars. I went to disconnect an air line from the wall but the release was jammed. After a few minutes of trying to free it, I grabbed the connector with both hands and forced it back and forth. I thought the release was connected to the line… I was mistaken. As the pressurised hose released, the connector fired out like a bullet, was sent flying across the workshop and towards a Ferrari F340 that just had a respray and a panel repair. It came within an inch of its left door and hit with floor with a crack. Took a small chip of the concrete floor with it. My backside was chewing my undies on that one. 😬😬😬
A tractor trailer hauling 10 motor vehicles not even having walls on the side to catch wind would be so heavy only going 35 miles an hour that nothing short of a 50 mph wind would nudge that truck in the slightest. How many bike rides have you taken in 50 mph winds? There is no way a wind gust caused that accident. Somebody's lying.
1:50 "the inspectors failed to detect..." be careful there, they may have failed to detect, or they simply weren't given enough man power to detect because the rail company that owns those lines got cheap, or and IMO probably most likely they did detect the problems it's simply the RR company that owns the tracks failed to make repairs.
I accidentally broke a grand piano at my church once. But luckily since I was a kid at the time I was not charged for it. I feel sorry for whoever had to pay for it though.
@@markvincent5992 So. You don't think sex offenders and the like do not LIE to the court and file false claims of innocence. Three years is unreasonable.
It has hard to imagine that the 737 fuselages were worth $90 million each. In 2014, that would be the price of a complete 737. The damaged fuselages had no engines, no wings, no cockpits, no interior finish, no plastic cups, and no lime wedges.
a few mistakes in the video: 1. the car used to represent the Veyron is actually a Mansory Vincero (as noted by the V at the bottom at the grille) a Mansory kit for the Veyron 2. at the flipped truck the graphic shows 2 Ferrari Enzo instead of 2 F430s
Submarine crash.... Back in 1983, my Navy frigate (smaller ASW ship) had just departed for our Med/IO Deployment. Three days out in the Atlantic, we hit a whale. Not joking! We all felt the impact, but no injuries. It split our big rubber sonar dome open, letting seawater into the transducers, which require fresh water. We had to turn around and go into drydock for a month to get it replaced. That was pretty expensive. 😮 But we got to spend the Christmas holidays in our "first foreign liberty port", Brooklyn, NY. 😅
ocean gate be like: *CONTROLLER DISCONNECTED, RECHARGE CONTROLLER TO TURN IT BACK ON* + *CONNECTING........ NO NETWORK DETECTED, RETURNING TO MAIN MENU....*
"I won't discriminate against anyone because of their age, but I will repeatedly mention how OLD this captain was, despite his age having absolutely no bearing on the accident OR the investigation." Bad form. It's a no from me.
THOSE CYCLIST SHOULD HAVE BEEN AT FAULT FOR BEING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD! That poor truck driver risked his own life with all those $$$ cars to save the people on the bikes! 😢 I hope he’s ok.
Blame those bike riders. It should be illegal to be on a highway if they cannot do rated road speed. They should all have been charged with obstruction of traffic, and causing this accident.
@@lancerevell5979 the law doesn't work that way here. We don't really know anything about those bikers or the road conditions, so we can't place blame.
I smell a rat! Putting on my conspiracy hat for a minute, did Boeing agents sabotage those tracks? Remember all the difficulties and crashes that were going on with 737's around that time, and since?
May I also suggest the Felicity Ace that sank in the Atlantic? It was a ship that sank in the Atlantic, I'm pretty sure near the Azores, and it was carrying around 4000 Volkswagens. The cost was around 400 million (I think.)
USS San Francisco SSN 711 was my former command the sailor who pass away was Joseph "cooter" Ashley, He is on eternal patrol and missed greatly. May his memory live on. along with my good friend Keenan.
At 13:10, the cheat software in the Volkswagen automobiles was not a device, it was software. If there was a device in the exhaust train, as shown, it would have genuinely reduced exhaust emissions to an acceptable level.
To be perfectly honest Portugal, Spain, and France are also to blame because they refused them to dock and boy did the three suffer consequences on their coastlines
Clean air act locked hundreds of thousands of cars up to protect the environment....the energy usage and emissions from actually just BUILDING THOSE Cars would have been enormous...now NEW CARS ARE BEING MADE TO REPLACE THOSE THAT WERE SCRAPPED???....Oh Yeah!!.. Economic.
Could be because they didn't go bust. Sales dropped but only by about 10% and that did effect the stock price in the short term. Their stock prices and sales have increasing again. The biggest issue for you and the others that took a stand is that it did F'all to sales outside of America. Sorry, the big Bud boycott was about as effective as the convoy that went to the border and *didn't* see anything of what fox and newsmax and Bannon and all the other prat's were telling you or them.
The WV diesel cheat was discovered by some collage students and did not have a standard test rig and put all the testing equipment inside the car and drove it on the street. The program reduced the power and emissions when only the drive wheels were spinning and the other wheels were stationary. So technically it was reducing emissions but only during the test.
Were I live, all wheels are stationary during the tailpipe test. It's something they learned after they had a few incidences with AWD vehicles. Maybe they had that mode covered too.
I still have one of those, i love it, great mileage, sweet running engine, the feds were fos, the difference in gases was nill
Credit to those 'collage' students. Y wud anyone pay tuition when some magazines & mucilage ...
The Volkswagen clean diesel scandal was a little more complicated than indicated in this video. Standardized testing such as that done by the EPA, or cities with their own smog emissions testing would all indicate that everything was fine and the emissions were well within acceptable limits.
What happened was three college students conducted their own testing with the vehicles while the vehicles were actually driving on roads rather than stationary and hooked up to a testing device. For example, the cheat software built into the cars would greatly limit the emissions of the vehicle if various sensors detected that the vehicle wasn’t moving but the engine was under load- as what happens during all standardized testing. Once the sensors realized the vehicle was moving (everyday driving) it allowed the engine to produce emissions that were exponentially higher than allowed. This is why their engineering seemed so amazing at the time. They were seemingly able to get all the benefits of a diesel; great fuel economy and plenty of power, without the extremely high emissions.
Despite it being proven that the upper echelon of Volkswagen’s engineering and executive personnel knew all about it, no one spent a day in prison for it.
Were other car makers doing the same thing?
@@warrenann No.
I live in a region with no emission testing. I know people that bought those cheap and love the performance!
@@warrenann Yup, try googling it.
Some were doing the rigging, some were just fudging tests and results.
Yeah it certainly wasn't the EPA discovering the issue.
Pretty sneaky cutting the power produced under testing conditions to levels that would've been completely unacceptable to consumers to reduce the apparent emissions and pass the test
Just a big a crime to me, is how complicated unrealistic the EPA tests for MPG are compared to real world driving. Supposedly companies have complained and filed lawsuits b/c they knew their customers would be upset when the car the purchase never gets close to the milage the EPA ratings report.
Wait... When a 747 falls off a train it doesn't go "boeing boeing!"
No its boeing dragged down instantly (bc of the gravity boeing gravity) edit: i'm sorry if this joke was boeing... boring ;P
@@AngryChicKen-VIP dude you're a champion! 🤣
Nice joke
Way to jet-tison the joke@AngryTurturkeykey
Don't fly ..lol
"the structural integrity of the ship has everything to do with you" was the most hilarious and favourites part of mine
That's not always the case. Liberty ships were built with the intention / expectation they'd only need to survive crossing the atlantic 3 times. Not round trips, just 3 times across the ocean. It was found that the ships had an engineered weakness in the middle of the hull that would often lead to the 3 *week* old ship breaking in half. Later a stiffener was added amidships and some liberty ships were still in use in the 70's.
With bulk crude tankers, many of the smaller vessels are operating on 1960s equipment / technology. Panamax and Suezmax are the normal tanker being built, with the smaller units being used mainly as ferries for shallow water ports.
This was a ship that had been used up already, but the owners were going to use it till it sank.
That Bugatti lake swim was the perfect blackmail situation. 😂
A TH-camr named Houston crosta bought that Bugatti and is almost done rebuilding it now lol
No, because in the video the guy filming said that he was "pretty sure that is a Lambo" which I think is such an embarrassment I would never show that video again.
I think I remember that clip from way back then.
@@meticulous_rcI was going to say that
@@deeganvirden2579same here I seen it a couple years ago
I know the captain with the oil spill deserves blame, but common we need some kind of EU law that says you can't refuse a leaking oil tanker help, just because you are afraid of the mess. The countries must have known it would become worse the longer they couldn't dock.
Exactly! Because no one would let him dock, the oil spill was worse than it should have been
That's common
What if it's nuclear
The captain did not summon the storm so how can he be to blame? O_o are you saying he was practicing Witchcraft? O.O
During the Hoover free flights offer, I bought a Hoover Vacuum Cleaner for £109, got the voucher and prmpltly sold the Hoover to my next door neighbour for £90 and ended up with the flights.
That's karma for such a horrible business practice....
So cool to actually get an account of one of these events 😃
Where did you fly off to with the tickets?
*I bought a Wet & Dry Cleaner from Hoover and still have it in Mint Condition - Got me 2 Weeks Holiday Free in Orlando with my family of 3 Kids and my Wife - but the best of it is paid a bit extra and got upgraded to a better Hotel (Forgot the name) and Free Breakfasts !*
Good on you!👍🏻🎉
Nah the worst mistake is backtalking your mom when you're 8
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Even worse was when she says, just wait till your dad gets home😂😂😂
Your expensive is your hospital bill
I tried that *once* was schooled pretty quick
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"When the jar of peanut butter goes crashing to the floor, then gets mooshed into the carpet by the kid that lives next door. Don't reach for the broom and dust pan or that old Electrolux. Reach for Hoover....it really sucks!" -- commercial for Hoover written by Barry Manilow 😂😂😂😂😂😂❤
Ah, the vacuum world: Where not sucking sucks.
Iam still using my old electrolux from 1954
@@dlb4900in the '90s my second job was an Electrolux salesman. I also had a 1950s model for use in my home. Every once in awhile if I had a customer that was almost ready to buy but I couldn't quite get them to close the deal. I would break out the '50s model & show the power that it still has. Talk about closing a deal quickly, I could almost eat the fat lady singing the second I hit the power button. 😅😂
That Bugatti story is hilarious and im glad someone was filming! Great seeing a rich liar get caught and held accountable!
There was another incident where a guy hired a new Audi RS4 and did a track day. He went off the track and wrecked one side of the car so he staged a road crash to cover his arse. Unfortunately for him someone had been filming that day and put the recording on the internet!
I wondered about that - the insurance will pay out if you swerve for a pelican, but they won't pay out if the car goes into the water for a driver-related issue? Seems odd to me!
@@DownhillAllTheWay ...and why did insurance pay out ~2 million when it was mentioned the car was 'only' 1 million??
Saw that clip as a random fail compilation on youtube back then in 2018-2019, or something.
Yeah. And if anyone's familiar with the Divine Comedy, that liar could have well landed into the Eighth Circle of Hell.
11:49 I actually worked for the Volkswagen buyback program for the Canadian customers department. It took over a year, maybe two, to fix that problem.
So you had something to do with it?
The EPS didn't discover the VW dieselgate scandal. It was college students who discovered it by accident while real world testing mileage.
This was common knowledge in the UK by a LOT of MOT testers and mechanics - and was common in FAR more vehicles than just VW. It was very much an open secret as at the time, sidestepping nanny-state rules wasn't illegal just "creative".
Now of course, all the owners who have campaigned for the RIGHT to have their engines "updated", now realise they have lost economy and lost performance. No great surprise to anyone that understands the BASICS of stochiometric combustion (while allowing a tiny bit rich). But so many owners seem genuinely surprised that the engine firmware was designed to give the best performance / economy balance all along - and just run like a pig to get through the emissions. Now it just runs like a pig ALL the time.
I find it so irritating that Americans insist on appending -gate to every scandal since Watergate. There was actually a hotel named The Watergate, whereas Dieselgate is a made-up word.
@@guyteigh3375 it wasn't in the firmware, it was software. (The difference being one is stored physically in a chip, the other is stored magnetically on a disk/drive) the software would be "written" by the car as soon as it thought it was on a dynometer. it was a fill-in-the-blank bit of code that used current perhiprials (Values of readings from sensors) to remap the fuel trim on the fly. It also tends to drive mechanics nucking futz when one minute you get one set of values and the next the car "Figures itself out" without you doing a thing. We kept fighting vacuum leaks in the emissions system, with the normal run condition active it'd run like crap as it tried to overfuel. Stick it in EPA mode and all of a sudden the car purred like a kitten as it leaned out a bit...
The story about the Boeing 737s getting scrapped because of a train derailment is jaw-dropping! 😱 It’s a stark reminder of how one oversight can lead to astronomical losses. Great video compiling these stories. It really puts into perspective the domino effect in these situations.
More jaw dropping to see how weak and fragile they are not flying on one of their aircraft again no chance of living even if it just crashes at take off.
My dad worked on that plane
When this happened, they were probably intended for the 737NG. If it had happened a few years latter, it would have been 737MAX fulilages. Given how many problems have shown up with that model, those might have been better off scrapped.
There’s one where a mars probe was programmed in feet but the measurements were done in meters. And then there was the exon Valdez spill. Drunk captian.
@@basillah7650 No aircraft fuselage is going to survive a train derailment. The stresses of rail transport are very different from flight stresses. In flight, the weight of the fuselage is borne by the wings. On the tarmac, the weight is borne mostly by the main gear, which is under the wings. In both instances, the weight is supported at the center of gravity. They do not make fuselage transporting rail cars. For rail transport, wheel trucks are fastened to the nose and tail of the fuselage, so the weight of the fuselage is not supported at the middle, but at the ends. With the ends hanging off of the middle, the bottom is compressed and the top is in tension. Supported only at the ends, the top is compressed and the bottom is in tension. This is a reversal of the normal state of affairs, so an engineer crunched the numbers and determined that expected railway conditions would not break anything, but derailments are unexpected events.
The $135,000,000 price tag to repair the sub is mindblowing. I mean, knowing just a little about construction, and having been a mechanic, both automotive and marine, for a couple of decades, coming up with costs to add up to that amount is insane. Figure materials, man hours and the probably most expensive thing, tech, it's still hard to bring it up to that figure! The amount of money spent on government contracts is obscene. And that figure was just to replace the nose cone portion of the sub!
It shows one of the many examples of how prices have been driven up by people valuing their R & D at pretty much any dollar figure they like. (it's one of the major forces behind pharmaceutical pricing)
1: The San Francisco's reactor had just been refuelled, which is a very expensive once-in-a-lifetime event for those reactors. The Navy had just put a huge amount of money into modernizing the sub; writing it off would have made that a waste.
2: The SF was barely halfway through her expected life. At the time, she was expected to remain in service until 2017; she ended up staying until 2022. If she had been retired, the Navy would have had to make up for her loss by either cutting the downtime and maintenance intervals of other submarines (which you know wears them faster and increases the risk of major failure) order a fully new submarine to replace her, which would have cost much more than $135 million and taken several years to be completed.
3: They saved costs where possible. They didn't actually repair the SF's bow; they replaced it with the bow of USS Honolulu, which was soon to be retired and had not received the refuelling and upgrades mentioned in 1. For comparision, it was initially estimated that modernizing Honolulu to replace SF would have cost $90 million MORE than SF's repair cost.
Also, the repair was something that could've been avoided if the captain wasn't so stupid.
@@ludonymous526 Tesla should give the Navy the heads up on autonomous subs.
@@kevinmoffatt Yeah. But still.
The SF was never able to be returned to service. The costs were to retrofit it as a training ship. I was on another submarine at the time and I can tell you from the photos, you can see the doors to the occupied parts of the ship. They were literally inches from losing the entire ship.
The Volkswagen crisis really got to me. Imagine just how many previous awful things they would have gotten away with to get the confidence to sell many thousandths of cars with literal evidence of fraud inside all the cars.
basically the whole german engineering is lies and poor quality. shows the power of marketing and naive ppl.
Sucks for that truck driver being off-roaded by spandex-wearers!
Budweiser: Hold my beer
Too soon
@@falrus Who the heck are you?
@@SamBrickell your mom's close friend
WAZZUUUUUUPPPPPPP!!!!
I am still shocked and amazed that people got their panties in a bunch over that stupid bullshit. It's what's inside the can that matters not outside.
The car transporter got a first-hand ethical dilemma on their hands.
There's plenty of cyclists .
unless law requires me to stop, I would honk the horn and not let off, THEY can get out of the way, I can't.
Trolley problem but with Lambos on one track and cyclists on the other
Yeah I think he did the right thing because the cars can always be replaced those lies he saved cannot
That makes about as much sense as having an automobile being driven blindfolded
Sometimes companies end up greedy and end up losing everything
They are all greedy, they just gamble sometimes or get blinded by the greed.
Chaucer predicted it in the Pardoner’s Tale. Fatal greed is as old as money.
The same saying goes with countries and their leaders!
Greed isn’t limited to companies.
But when government gets greedy, they just raise our taxes and go on forever. Look at the any big city in the U.S. for instance.
My most favourite narrator, yet again with another awesome video😊😊😊🎉🎉❤
The Captain had a sinking feeling too
"I didn't see no pelican" So you saw a pelican because I didn't see a pelican
The captain had the nerve to say the conditions of his ship was non of his business😑
Yeah. What a douchebag.
Greek shipping company, Greek captain, Panamanian registry . . . I would not have trusted them to haul a boat-load of poop. You know what happens when you turn your back on a Greek? You get an enlarged bunghole.
Gerald Ratner should go down in history as the most brilliant and honest enterprenuer that ever lived.
They don't mention it here, but he went on to regain his wealth.
@@cindydott452 I was wondering about that, thanks for the info.👍
The most beautiful, soothing and pleasent voice on TH-cam... I could hear you narrate the weather or even the a "To Do" list... Keep on bringing joy to our ears...
It is AI😂
If you guys make a mistake, just remember if its not as costly as these, dont beat yourself too hard
This is so cool!!!!! I'm actually FROM Victorville California, and I'm pretty sure I've actually seen the Volkswagen graveyard!!!! I think we also had one for planes... Admittedly, I was a child that didn't care (hence my uncertainty) but now I want to look for them the next time I'm visiting family!!!
........ not like there's much else to do in Victorville 🙄
Yep bought cheapest Hoover product over £100, persevered with the faff of application and jumped thru all the loopholes. Had 2 Fabulous weeks in Florida.. thank you Hoover
I remember that huge oil spill. I'm in the UK and was in the last year of primary school while that was going on, the teachers used it as a subject, and we started designing gadgets that could lift oil off the top of water. Interesting lessons!
The Veyron was crashed in South Texas into the Gulf of Mexico tidal flats near Corpus Christie Texas.
It’s also recently been rebuilt and almost is back on the road
9:22 You have to watch the real video. It's embarrassing to drive into a lake, but even more embarrassing is the one filming saying he is "pretty sure that's a Lambo"
I remember the Ratners incident. For years after my family would say something was Ratners 😂😂 He absolutely shot himself in the foot big time, total divvy 😂😂😂
Huh
Gerry wasn't lying though. His products *were* crap, hollow, thin metal, broken and irreparable within a couple of years, even with careful handling.
I hope the inspector gets fired because they would clearly not very good at their job
You're estimate of 90 million per aircraft body is wayyyy off, like stupid off. 90 million is the price of BUILT plane, just the body itself is probably no where close to that
Was going to say the same thing.
These guys sound like the same person but it just sounds like one just woke up. Im here for it
10:19 I laughed when u put in the no one was hurt notice, nice one jay, this made my day 😂🎉
I love this series,love your content be amazed
When they were starting production on the first Star Wars movie, George Lucas negotiated with Fox studios that he would have a smaller salary in exchange for 2 things:
1. Be in charge of future instalments
2. The merchandising rights
Fox studios agreed since they didnt have much faith in that movie. Needless to say, you can imagine how much money they just gave up to Lucas.
Well worth the watch at 6 in the morning 🤦🏽♀️
Ah yes, I rememeber my 5th grade teacher telling us about Gerald Ratner, one of those lessons to prepare us for the real world.
Who remembers the old be amazed mascot❤️
What was it?
Amazing narration again. Great sense of humor!
Wow. $90 million for just a fuselage. Image how much it would cost after you add the engines, wings, avionics, electric, plumbing, galleys, seats, lighting, gear, etc. (Or perhaps the estimate is a tad high)
I would guess,,600-800 million,,,
@@jorgeb9715 My comment was sarcastic. $90 million is the cost of a competed 737. Ready to fly. You can get a brand new 747 for about $450 million. For $600-800 million, you've left the commercial aviation world and are looking into a private, and fully decked out, Airbus A380.
@@ptrinch don't you worry,,,I'd exaggerated in price too 200 Mills,, perhaps for that fuselage price
Here we go again.
0:33 Boe-No-Ing
2:22 Crap Deal
4:48 Crash Landing
8:12 Bugatti Baddie
10:02 Supercar Stunts
11:48 EMission Issues
13:50 Prestigious Problems
16:03 Lake Peigneur
18:17 A Missed Opportunity
20:00 Another Missed Opportunity
21:26 Going Under
22:50 USS San Francisco…No
25:02 *Outro*
thank u
Shows how unsafe those aircraft are if damaged that easily no chance of surviving even if low flight range crash at take off
Thank u for guiding my curiousity ive been looking for this exact type of videos ever since grade/year 5
This is my favorite ❤️ narrator
Who liked my comment
THE fun part of the hoover-miscalculation (besides violating consumer trust) is, that they also completely satiated the market, and a lot of their product was resold-as-used, causing them to compete for sales with their own past mistakes in more than 1 way.
I bought a house from an old lady that included a very old hoover Vacuum that still works with replacement bags. It is very heavy and self propelled.
That was the most authentic sounding AI voice- complete with subtle voice nuances that other AI drones just don't have
And now, I shall quote to the 10 supercars jack-knife incident.
“It’s a hard dilemma. Would you rather injure someone with an enormous vehicle or rather allow supercars worth millions of dollars to be severely damaged and the worth becomes valueless?” - YES ESCAPE, 2024
The bean counters probably would have said the lawsuits by the cyclists would be cheaper than the loss on the super cars. Blast the hell out of the trucks air horns. If they won't move out of the way quickly oh well.
The driver is likely driving too fast for the condition. The trailer with no sides are not as affected by the wind as a regular trailer. He is lying. I fire him.
Do you want me to point out every single mislabeled car on that graphic for the trailer? The Aston Martin you showed was not, in fact, a DB11, but merely a DB9. The two Ferraris weren't $100,000-$200,000 F430s, but two $3,000,000-$4,000,000 Ferrari Enzos, which would have made this a much more expensive accident. The Aventador you showed, while still being an Aventador, was a higher trim SV, rather than the base trim, the LP700-4. That nissan GT-R wasn't an R35 trim, but a Nismo, which is a more track focused variant. I believe that all the cars damaged were correctly named, but that animated images you showed were slightly off.
Definitely worth more than the fucking bicyclists though wtf 🤦🏻♂️
On one hand, this is totally an ACKSHULLY post. On the other hand, it is a lot of neat information from a topic you're passionate about and I think that's really cool. I hope you have a nice day.
@@blackkittycat15 Thank you. I hope you have a nice day as well.
@@Redeemed_marine_69 Please tell me you’re joking. Cars can be replaced, but lives can’t. That driver did the right thing.
I had a close call with a mistake that would have cost tens of thousands.
Was working at a body shop for flash cars. I went to disconnect an air line from the wall but the release was jammed. After a few minutes of trying to free it, I grabbed the connector with both hands and forced it back and forth. I thought the release was connected to the line… I was mistaken.
As the pressurised hose released, the connector fired out like a bullet, was sent flying across the workshop and towards a Ferrari F340 that just had a respray and a panel repair. It came within an inch of its left door and hit with floor with a crack. Took a small chip of the concrete floor with it.
My backside was chewing my undies on that one. 😬😬😬
God damnit!
*me thinking of my mistakes and having flashbacks*
My friends: what was you’re biggest mistake?
Also me: I never made mistakes😂
10:33 the part , when my body left my slow
Makes me feel a bit better about my mistakes. Wonderful video
A tractor trailer hauling 10 motor vehicles not even having walls on the side to catch wind would be so heavy only going 35 miles an hour that nothing short of a 50 mph wind would nudge that truck in the slightest. How many bike rides have you taken in 50 mph winds? There is no way a wind gust caused that accident. Somebody's lying.
They probably weigh close to 25 ton and upto around 15ft in the air, plus any camber on the road
I think the truck was going too fast for the condition, or else it could just stop. I fire this driver.
1:50 "the inspectors failed to detect..." be careful there, they may have failed to detect, or they simply weren't given enough man power to detect because the rail company that owns those lines got cheap, or and IMO probably most likely they did detect the problems it's simply the RR company that owns the tracks failed to make repairs.
Biden screwed the railroad workers out of sick leave. Now Kamkam has been exposed as a drunk hit and run perp, with a paralyzed girl victim.
well let's see.... couple billion dollars, 500 heart attacks, 150 strokes, 2000 sucides and 10 lost
There’s one word to describe all of these fails: “oops”
That Hoover trip scam reminds me a little bit of rebates
Duh
Be amazed makes the world go round
The British themselves have a saying to describe Gerald Ratner's effective boasting about his jewelry "business strategy": _Too clever by half._
I accidentally broke a grand piano at my church once. But luckily since I was a kid at the time I was not charged for it. I feel sorry for whoever had to pay for it though.
Video was awesome as usual, thank you❤
Shame on the Bugatti owner, but THREE YEARS IN PRISON??? There are s*x offenders who've gotten less! Our judicial system needs an overhaul.
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I believe that the reason he got prison was for filing a false claim and/or lying to the court.
@@markvincent5992 So. You don't think sex offenders and the like do not LIE to the court and file false claims of innocence. Three years is unreasonable.
. The woke court systems consider grape to be just another sexual preference...
It has hard to imagine that the 737 fuselages were worth $90 million each. In 2014, that would be the price of a complete 737. The damaged fuselages had no engines, no wings, no cockpits, no interior finish, no plastic cups, and no lime wedges.
Man I love them VW diesels they run for ever if you take care of the. And if you have the 1.9 turbo diesel with a 5 speed
a few mistakes in the video:
1. the car used to represent the Veyron is actually a Mansory Vincero (as noted by the V at the bottom at the grille) a Mansory kit for the Veyron
2. at the flipped truck the graphic shows 2 Ferrari Enzo instead of 2 F430s
Submarine crash.... Back in 1983, my Navy frigate (smaller ASW ship) had just departed for our Med/IO Deployment. Three days out in the Atlantic, we hit a whale. Not joking! We all felt the impact, but no injuries. It split our big rubber sonar dome open, letting seawater into the transducers, which require fresh water. We had to turn around and go into drydock for a month to get it replaced. That was pretty expensive. 😮
But we got to spend the Christmas holidays in our "first foreign liberty port", Brooklyn, NY. 😅
What ship?
What a good start of the day❤
On the VW diesel software scandal, its funny how Mercedes, Audi and Volvo stopped selling diesels in America. They all were doing it.
11:30 the trolley problem got expensive! 😱
ocean gate be like:
*CONTROLLER DISCONNECTED, RECHARGE CONTROLLER TO TURN IT BACK ON* +
*CONNECTING........ NO NETWORK DETECTED, RETURNING TO MAIN MENU....*
That was an excellent video. Very informative and hugely entertaining.🇬🇧🇬🇧
"I won't discriminate against anyone because of their age, but I will repeatedly mention how OLD this captain was, despite his age having absolutely no bearing on the accident OR the investigation." Bad form. It's a no from me.
Number 6: the cargo ship crashing into the baltimore bridge 😂
THOSE CYCLIST SHOULD HAVE BEEN AT FAULT FOR BEING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD! That poor truck driver risked his own life with all those $$$ cars to save the people on the bikes! 😢 I hope he’s ok.
I'd save the cars
Its ok we are just mortals we make mistakes, and it was worth it lives or cars?
Need a new list with the Baltimore bridge that just collapsed
That story of the truck jacknifing is my worst fear. I have Stagea coming to North America.😬
Blame those bike riders. It should be illegal to be on a highway if they cannot do rated road speed. They should all have been charged with obstruction of traffic, and causing this accident.
@@lancerevell5979 the law doesn't work that way here. We don't really know anything about those bikers or the road conditions, so we can't place blame.
Houston Crosta owns that Bugatti now and he fixed it all up!
I thought it was the end of the world when I broke a candle in Bath and Body Works.
The worst thing is backing some asshole for office and then finding out he is the complete opposite of what he pretended to be.
.....& that all the property & golf-courses he claims to own are overvalued, along with being bought using fraudulent loans!
Yes, cases in point: Obama and Biden.
I wonder how many lives were saved by keeping those Boeing 737’s out of the sky.
I smell a rat! Putting on my conspiracy hat for a minute, did Boeing agents sabotage those tracks? Remember all the difficulties and crashes that were going on with 737's around that time, and since?
Nice voice!
Love your video Be Amazed and keep up the great work you are awesome
I also used to use Excite for email.
8:36 For those of you interested, Houston Crosta has completely rebuilt this Bugatti and it looks way better than it ever did! 😍
you have forgotten Mao's "Great Leap Forward"
The vacuum one was wild “two tickets”? They would have still failed with one but two was savage 😂😂😂
you know it's bad when the commentator mentions all the cars
May I also suggest the Felicity Ace that sank in the Atlantic?
It was a ship that sank in the Atlantic, I'm pretty sure near the Azores, and it was carrying around 4000 Volkswagens. The cost was around 400 million (I think.)
USS San Francisco SSN 711 was my former command the sailor who pass away was Joseph "cooter" Ashley, He is on eternal patrol and missed greatly. May his memory live on.
along with my good friend Keenan.
At 13:10, the cheat software in the Volkswagen automobiles was not a device, it was software. If there was a device in the exhaust train, as shown, it would have genuinely reduced exhaust emissions to an acceptable level.
Thanks, wondered about that. In one place in the video they said it was a device and later they called it software.
Mistakes 5?? That's a ton!
Very entertaining. I watch too much politics on TH-cam and this was a nice break great job. I like the subtle humor.
After hearing all these huge loss amounts, I’m happy to be a peasant and NOT a business person lol
The exploratory drilling creating a 26 hectare whirlpool… Heck!!! 😮
To be perfectly honest Portugal, Spain, and France are also to blame because they refused them to dock and boy did the three suffer consequences on their coastlines
Nice to see a great video without some pesky and really annoying commercials inserted.
Clean air act locked hundreds of thousands of cars up to protect the environment....the energy usage and emissions from actually just BUILDING THOSE Cars would have been enormous...now NEW CARS ARE BEING MADE TO REPLACE THOSE THAT WERE SCRAPPED???....Oh Yeah!!.. Economic.
Warner Bros. and Discovery's merge is the most expensive mistake in history...
Surprise Bud Light isn't on this list.
Next edition, maybe. 😊
What they did wasn't a mistake. The mistake was on the part of the Neanderthals who took issue with it.
Or Gillette
Could be because they didn't go bust. Sales dropped but only by about 10% and that did effect the stock price in the short term. Their stock prices and sales have increasing again. The biggest issue for you and the others that took a stand is that it did F'all to sales outside of America. Sorry, the big Bud boycott was about as effective as the convoy that went to the border and *didn't* see anything of what fox and newsmax and Bannon and all the other prat's were telling you or them.
@@dark14life Well said!