"Tony Bryer" wrote in message
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On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 08:39:57 +0100 Bob Mannix wrote :
I always felt that, if all drivers were on an unprotected boom poking out
the front of the car, there would be no need for any safety measures or
speed limits at all!

No it wouldn't work since every teenage male driver knows that they
are indestructible.

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Tony Bryer SDA UK 'Software to build on' http://www.sda.co.uk

More to the point, it doesn't seem to be working for motorcyclists, and the
safety record in the 1930s when cars were equipped with steel spikes ready
to be driven into the drivers chest (aka steering columns) wasn't anything
to be proud of.

Andy