<VV> fishtailing?? 99% of "drivers" make the rest look bad ...

Charles Lee at Proper Pro Per chaz at ProperProPer.com
Wed Oct 11 23:01:04 EDT 2006


The way I see it, the car mfgr's designed FWD because understeer is far 
"safer" for the great masses of people to whom there is no discernible 
difference between operating and driving a car.

The Corvair is "responsive" which, to anyone who knows the aforementioned 
difference, is a distinct advantage in controlling car.

To the other 99%, understeer at least keeps them traveling in the same 
general direction after they lose control, and the worst that happens is 
that they careen off the outside of the curve, instead on the inside.

Unfortunately, in my opinion, the hardest part of "defensive driving" is 
simply being aware that the other 99% are out there.  And they will blame 
the car, of course.  People don't have accidents; cars do ...

Chaz


----- Original Message ----- 
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Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 6:37 PM
Subject: <VV> fishtailing??


> Check out this story:
>
> http://www.theunion.com/article/20061010/NEWS/110100165
>
> "She said Corvairs, which carry their engines in the back, are prone to 
> fishtailing, and her son was too inexperienced a driver to correct it."
>
> Oh really?
>
> They're still blaiming the car, not the loose nut behinde the wheel.
>
> sheesh.
>
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