** Reply to message from Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:29:58 -0700
> Or he buys older cars. > > It can be selection bias as well as behavioral bias. considering your life and those around you depend on the ability of any car to stop, I would hope even a used car would get a once-over to make sure the brakes are working, fluids clear and topped off, and the pads are with some material left for further wear. But hey, I had junkers when I was in highschool and tore them apart and put them together to improve their reliability. You get out on an old dirt road with a foot of snow on the road and have to get on you back and under the car to put a muffler back on. You don't want to do that again. Not to mention driving down those roads with 5' diameter oaks a foot to either side and you also don't want anything else to go wrong. There were no airbags back then either. I think most disregard the danger involved in getting that kind of mass going 30+ MPH or else I think more would know how the basics of the cars systems. -- KPLUG-LPSG@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
