> Having thought about it for a while, I'm amazed how many of you believe in > the car's ability to speed out of a danger situation > <quote (taken a bit out of context)> > that someone comes bearing down on you out of nowhere and the only way to > avoid an accident is to be able to punch the gas and have the car respond > immediately . . > </quote> > I sort of get the idea that you are all driving around in 400 bhp eggshells > (okay, no eggshell weighs 2 tonnes), but still... > Many accidents are unavoidable because either the driver don't realise he's > in a danger situation or he simply isn't humanly able to react fast enough > (given the speed many people drives with today). > Could I freely choose my own car, I'd seriously consider the Renault Laguna > (4 cylinder 2.0 enginge being the most powerful of the programme), simply > because it's one of two cars to have ever achieved 5 of 5 points in the > EuroNCAP crash test program. > Don't you have a similar program in the states? I seem to recall something > like USNCAP or something like that. > > Med venlig hilsen / Yours sincerely > M. Malmkvist / WWW.PowerCad.dk
Errrrr, they have the crash test rating system of some sort, and it shows that wrapping yourself in a big hulking small room amount of steel is very good for you. But not for the other person. There have been many many people who ask why cars don't have regulators, say limiting the top speed to 80 MPH. I am surprised it has't happened yet. The only arguement I hear is about 'getting away' from something and I imagine the number of people who had their lives saved because they could go 120 is very small. I think cars could be designed to have all the power you need below 80, but no speed above 80. Kevin T. Of course, I'd scream the loudest if the government ever tried to do this, but I still think one day they will try. Maybe someone will sue the DOT after their family dies on a highway from a high speed accident. My hometown was sued once, the one red light in town wasn't working. It could only flash yellow to cars in east-west direction and red to north-south. Two cars hit head on, not from a side direction, with one fatality and they blamned it on the faulty red light. And won.
