Hi, I don't know whether the situations are the same with regard to safety in N. America as they are in Europe, but it's a misconception over here that SUVs and so on are safer than conventional cars, and it's very naughty of the motor industry to imply (I don't think they openly claim) that they are. Because the SUV types of car are classified with industrial and farm vehicles they are held to a lower safety standard than conventional cars. So these people driving gaggles of kids to school every morning under the impression that they are safer in a SUV than they would be in a Civic are quite wrong. And the danger may even be increased by the driver's mistaken sense of invulnerability.
--- Bob Saturday, November 30, 2002, 2:29:56 PM, you wrote: > Oh, no, Jeff, > Even if I were ever to buy a car (who knows?), I'd never get rid of the bike. > <g> > BTW, I don't mean my original post to be slagging anyone who drives SUV's or > Great Hunking 4WD V8 Pickup Trucks or anything - these things have their > place. But those micro-cars (or whatever they are) make so much more sense > for urban driving. > Unfortunately, I don't think we in North America will ever get them (in the > near future anyway), because I doubt that they meet crash requirments. > Oh well, back to PUG :-) > frank > Jeff wrote: >> Imagine, you might get rid of your bike yet. <G> >> > -- > "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist > fears it is true." -J. Robert > Oppenheimer
