Huge study about safety can be misinterpreted by SUV drivers

real bad boys cars those.
Lots on the road here in NZ, now they're a popular Drag conversion car, with
big tubbed wheels and a 5.7L cehv 350ci engine running Menthol with a turbo
per 2 cylinders.

rhys

 

Average age of cars here in NZ last i heard was in the range of 19 years.

I drove an '82 Mitsi as my first car, followed by a '83 Nissan. now a '88
Bighorn

rhys

 

It does for me. Doesn't get much more incredible than saying we all
came from a random association of elements... How many ordered systems
do you know of that just spontaneously emerged from a pile of parts? I
wish we could build cars that way! Would be much cheaper...


Matt

 

All the passengers would be "average"... the "freaks of nature" are on their
own

 

I'm glad I didn't know that when I had one!

 

It's interesting, as your points are highly believable, but they don't come
up in the news programs. I would have thought that if ammunition was a
contributing factor then Ford would have been highlighting that in public
announcements.

 

Your kind of people, or your view of comfort must be different from our
family who managed to be comfortable in an Impreza hatchback.

 

The explanation may be unsettled; the fact that gravity is, is not.

No, that time moves slower in a gravity well is fact, for example.

But they don't refute the existence of atoms.

No, it is a fact; there's an accompanying explanation as to how it happens.

No, warming on a global scale.

The world is getting warmer; that's why it's called _global_ warming.

Yes it is.

So which journals do you read? What area of science is your graduate degree
in?

No, Galileo used science; the ones who went after him refused to see the
science because it contradicted their faith. You're the church here.

 

Most are less expensive than an SUV with comparable seating or cargo space.

 

No, the lies are that Iraq has (present tense) WMD, that these WMD posed an
imminent threat to us, that Iraq was trying to buy uranium, that Iraq bought
metal tubing suitable only for enriching uranium, that Saddam harbored
al-Qaida terrorists, that Saddam was in leaque with bin Laden, ...

 

Great. You compare a Mercedes the size of an Escape to an SUV bigger than an
S-class.

 

Then you're stupid.

 

And based on science, discovered it was not.

 

Liar. Noone has ever said that.

There was around 280 ppm for hundreds of thousands of years, until the mid
19th century. Now there's 350 ppm, over a 25% increase.

 

And incompetent would describe most drivers in this country (USA). In
fact drivers are trained to be incompetent. First, practically all
collisions are generally called 'accidents' as if they were all not
predictable. Then throw in tons of speed kills stuff like carl's
unexpected. No call to pay attention to the task of driving, to
understand driving, only to go slow so *when* someone crashes it
won't be as bad. On top of all of this, safety in the USA is generally
considered how well a vehicle survives a crash, not how many it avoids.
(outside a few BMW commericals)

Combine all these things and we get a bunch of people driving with
the views of the person you replied to. Accidents 'just happen', they
aren't in control, they aren't responsible, they cannot predict, they
can't do anything but get the biggest/strongest vehicle they can
afford for when they crash.

Practically everything I see other drivers do on the road is
predictable to me and when someone does something I didn't predict
I often believe I should have been able to. I recall some sign, some
tell, that I ignored.

I have (as do many others, it's nothing special) enough driving experience
to be able to read a road situation and the individual styles of drivers to
be able to predict what they are going to do before they do it.
It only takes knowledge and paying attention to detail.

While ideally, predictability should be what is seen on the autobahn,
even though the flow of US driving appears chaotic, the movement of
individual vehicles is rather predictable. I don't know how to prove
this other than to do a carl with a video camera and give a rolling
commentary. I would need two cameras and picture in picture because
both front and rear would need to be filmed.

 

They did. They reported this. Bush refused to believe them.

We withdrew them prior to bombing Iraq.

Bush claimed they existed in 2003. Where is the proof?

Prove their existence first.

Prove you've destroyed all traces of drugs in your house.

 

Bill, your computer date is waaay off which makes your cross posts hang
out at the top of the list for a long time....

If you weren't cross posting to 3 groups I read you wouldn't be so
annoying, but I just thought you should know about the date and time
thing.

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

<snip>

 

Where did I claim that Brent?

You need to join Marc and go back and read the posts in question.

It is impossible to predict the actions of every driver.

That's why some accidents are truly accidents, i.e. unavoidable. To
claim that you have the absolute ability " to *predict* what other
drivers are going to do and *avoid* being collected by them" is
ridiculous, hence my reply.

LOL. Psychic, eh?

To claim that you can predict what every driver is going to do is
ridiculous.

And a special device to monitor your psychic output.

Situational awareness is one of the cornerstones of safe driving but
to think that it makes you immune from the actions of other drivers is
the height of arrogance, or ignorance.

 

It could be the server he's using... that was the problem with my odd posts
about a months ago. Used 2 servers. Ones timw was off. Now it's just
dead.

 

no argument here...