" drum brakes are dangerous which is why Detroit got rid of them.
correction: detroit got rid of drums because the gubmint made them. they made 1000000-mile cars because the gubmint made them.
detroit would never get rid of anything they could make a nickel on just because they were dangerous - consider the pinto gas tank...
Yeah, we'd still be driving drum cars if they weren't shamed into it by Japan and Europe, and it took 10+ years for even that to happen. Their decline took a long time.
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