On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 06:09:10PM +0200, Moss wrote: > Mandatory here. Here too. Not sure when it became that way. Way too many design decisions are based on cost in north america for cars, and not enough on safe sensible design.
> I always thought that to be mandatory in the US - that's one of > the things regularly to be changed if you (re-)import cars from > the US to Germany. And yes, it _is_ insane. Many north american models have combined turn/brake, but many don't. Some models will change from one model year to another and then back for no apparent reason (other than their designers are either borred, stupid, or most likely both, or at least the people in charge of design choices are.) Now having seperate circuits and fuses for left and right sides of the cars lights, is not something I expect to see in north america anytime soon. You burn out a fuse on a north american car, you should not expect to have any lights left on your car (and might loose the radio, wipers and a few otehr unrelated things at the same time.) Of course guessing which of the many systems sharing the fuse is the cause is another fun job that comes later on. :) > So, german cars are all unsafe. Seatbelts are mandatory here. I hope they are mandetory everywhere by now. > Huh? I'm driving a (somewhat aged, by now ;-) Saab 900i, which has > the engine in front. Same with the newer 9^3 and 9^5 models. Do > they have completely different Saabs over there? The rear engined models are before the 900. I think Saab 96 or something like that might have been one of them. Not like that modern 900 you have. :) Len Sorensen
