<VV> Re:Unsafe At Any Speed ..........Reality

[Louis C. Armer,Jr.]

And the beat goes on and on. Safety is a JOKE when:

People don't wear seat belts
People don't know how to install a baby/child seat
People carry "passengers" in pickup beds at 80+mph on Interstates
People don't wear helmets when riding motorccles
People still drink and drive / use drugs and drive
People don't buy a $5 tire pressure gauge
People can't keep the proper tire pressure in SUV tires
People STILL don't read their Corvair owners manual
People don't read their vehicles owners manual

Folks the key word is PEOPLE still do really dumb things in vehicles
and kill themselves and others and cause 40,000 + annual deaths yearly
in the US. We all pay for stupidity behind the wheels of any motorized vehicle
be it car, truck, motorcycle, tractor or off road terrain vehicles. 
Even plain old
bicycles can kill People who do stupid things while riding them.

Chuck Armer

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At 11:04 AM 4/16/2006, you wrote:

>>  No, Nader isn't my favorite person, but I'm glad that someone got 
>> the ball rolling on simple design changes that have reduced 
>> highway fatalities dramatically over the last 40 years.
>>snip
>Okay, I'll present the other side of the coin. Yes, cars were not as 
>safe as they needed to be. BUT it was the market and not Government 
>deciding what was important. Exactly what Constitutional right did 
>the Government have to step in and dictate safety standards? If the 
>public wanted safer cars, they could have demanded them via the market.
      snip
    Bill Elliott
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