On 17 Jan 2006 11:05:19 -0800, with neither quill nor qualm, "rigger"
quickly quoth:
Larry Jaques remembers:
Nader got the Corvair off the road and left much more unstable VW bug
on the road. Great going, Ralph. I'm surprised the insurance companies
haven't responded to that one. VW bugs and buses burn up all the time
WITHOUT an accident causing it, yet 'they' go after the Pinto.
And you would have preferred what?
Personal note: I'm driving Lake Shore Drive in Chicago and am going
around "dead man's curve" (think they've straightened it out now) in my
1 year old '63 Corvair, and my left rear axle snaps off. This with
about 400# of passangers on-board. Never had that happen with my
"bug". Even had the steering wheel and column unscrew right up into my
hands when I was making a left turn one time. Bug never did that
either.
And I took my '64 Corvair convertible off 4' jumps with my dirtbike
buddies and drove it 90mph on the freeway at times. No broken axles,
no spinouts, no problems. Then I let my buddy drive while my new
girlfriend and I necked in the back seat. After I stopped to tell him
to SLOW DOWN a fifth time, he spun it out and we hit a berm on the
road and came up on two wheels right next to a telephone pole. My GF
got a nasty bump on her head from the steel roof brace but we and the
car were otherwise unharmed. No broken axle, no bent wheel. We were
amazed. Needless to say, _I_ drove us home and my buddy never drove
any of my cars again. I drove it fast but never spun it out, either.
Again, the problem was that of a slight problem in the engineering
which was horribly increased due to motorist inattention to both
driving and air pressure in the fracking tires. When either or both
were taken care of, the problem simply didn't exist. Nader should have
gone after a better vehicular maintenance schedule and/or driver's ed
for EVERYONE if he wanted to reduce accidents. In Germany, it costs
thousands of dollars to GET a driver's license and certified training
to be able to drive on the Autobahn.
Shall we license coffee for seniors?
Regarding your Corvair experience, either you have -lots- of karma
debt g or you simply bought a lemon.
(BTW, nice redirection from the subject.)
P.S: Your age reveals a whole lot about your attitudes. As Churchill
never said: "If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no
heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have
no brain."
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