The biggest problem I have in driving a smaller car when surrounded by much larger vehicles is that I really can't pay attention to anything because I can't see anything. Any yes, I am that guy that either works really hard to position my car so that a small car is in front of me or I maintain about 8 car lengths (or two SUV lengths :) of seperation. What I would really like is reactive armor and some of those see through things glasses. Well, that and rear and front mounted armor piercing lasers. And a massive spatula attachment on the front of my car. Neigebauer, Ben wrote: > Vehicle size wouldn't matter if the person driving the offending car was > paying attention in the first place. > > Not that I should really be saying anything. I use my cell phone in the > car quite a bit. > > > Benjamin E. Neigebauer > Software Engineer > Compellent Technologies > Eden Prairie, MN 55344 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew S. Hallacy [mailto:poptix at techmonkeys.org] > Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 2:50 PM > To: TCLUG Mailing List > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] RE: OT: big dumb cars > > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 02:20:52PM -0600, Kent Schumacher wrote: > >>Having known somebody who actually did plow *through* a fiberclass car >>and merrily wiped out a family, I can tell you that the fact that he >>didn't sustain injuries didn't really help him much. He managed to >>survive a couple more months until his birthday and then the pain >>became too much and he ended it. > > > Perhaps we need better testing before allowing people to drive. I've > seen > plenty of accidents, most are caused by people being idiots talking on > their cell phones, reading a newspaper, applying makeup(!), reaching > into > the back seat to attend to a child.. the list goes on. > > >>For the first time in decades the survivability of a crash is going >>down, and I think it's pretty safe to say it's because of the >>mismatch in vehicle sizes. > > > So complain to your neighbors in their SUV's, I actually use my vehicle > for work. > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list