Re: [AMC-list] Safety Weinie

[wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx]

I'm only going to hit a couple of points. 
   One thing about your 1% safety. You do know how many REAL people that is?  Roads are far more congested. The percentage of idiots is probably about the same. 
   The people here on this list are likely some of the safest drivers on the road. Hard to replace our antiques! I have spent 30 years learning how to watch for the idiots and drive on the local crap roads. Its a college town. % of idiots is high!
    
   The other point. The knife/leatherman. It is not the parents "fault" our kids don't carry them. Even 13-15 year old kids forget shit. One trip to school carrying any kind of blades and they are tossed out on their ass. Leaving us parents to sort out the mess!
    
   We used to go out at 17, drink and drive 20 miles home. Never pass another car! Cops would catch us take our beer scold us and send us home!  

   Those days are long gone!!!
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-----Original Message-----
From: tom jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:09:16 
To: AMC, Rambler, Nash, Jeep and family<amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [AMC-list] Safety Weinie

I have always wondered at the "return on investment" angle on the
incremental safety features. It's hard to argue that many of them are
totally worthwhile. The downside is heavy cars (an Accord weights more than
my Classic Wagon!), complexity, cost. Surprisingly, reliability is not an
issue, cars come with 6-digit odometers and don't drop dead at 100K.

There sare things that are clearly worth it and zero impact. Dual braking,
seat belts (ask any racer -- they IMPROVE car control), good rubber, ...

Collapsible steering columns, side-impact bars, etc -- low cost/impact, what
percentage of serious injury/fatality do they statistically improve? 10%?
1%? 0.1% I have no idea.

I suspect current cars but minus say side impact air bags would not worsen
fatality/injury by 1% nationwide, but the U.S. has lost the ability to say
"enough!" and insurance companies have huge influence on this stuff.


An article on this stuff would be GREAT!!




PS: I would not want to be a kid today, parents act like there's danger at
every corner. It's hard to believe it's any worse today than it was when I
was a kid.

 I routinely ask all our incoming grad students (adults!) if they were
allowed to carry a knife, leatherman, whatever as a kid, say 12, 13, 14, 15
-- with rare exceptions -- the answer is NO. Sad.
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