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

[Charles Lee at Prop Per]

Even though it is not illegal to be stupid, the penalty is sometimes death, 
usually someone else's unfortunately.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Louis C. Armer,Jr." <carmerjr at mindspring.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 2:05 PM
Subject: <VV> Re:Unsafe At Any Speed ..........Reality


> 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
>
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> 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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