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April 22, 2005
Unsafe at any speed!
Here's more evidence that SUVs are more dangerous than we realized: A tractor-trailer carrying new Mercury Mariners struck an overpass on the Atlantic City Expressway yesterday morning in Camden County, totaling two of the SUVs and damaging two more, police said.Clearly, this means that SUVs are so dangerous that they can kill people without even having to be started! Had that tractor trailer rig been loaded with normal cars, there would have been plenty of clearance, and the blasted thing wouldn't have hit the overpass! Vehicles which kill without having to be started remind me of an episode in my life when I was involved in mass shipping of medicinal supplements to people with AIDS. While one question was whether the supplements were effective as treatment, the other was whether they might be harmful, and if so, at what dose. The stuff came in heavy boxes, and they had to be carried up several flights of stairs. After careful calculation, the fatal dosage was determined. Two boxes at three stories. There was also my Volkswagen Rabbit diesel -- the slowest car I ever had. Almost. No. Power. Or. Acceleration. What. So. Ever. Wouldn't you think of such a car as being seemingly harmless to other drivers or pedestrians? Wrong! I am here to tell you that it was capable of developing very, very fast speeds. This occurred routinely whenever the car was going downhill! Couldn't blogs be fatal too? I think they could -- especially if they were used in a drive-by blogging! How much more senseless destruction and loss of human life will it take? posted by Eric on 04.22.05 at 09:20 AM
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YES! The Rabbit Diesel was slow. In Colorado we had to have it "tuned" to cut emissions, which made it slower - and very very dangerous to drive on the highway. However the 50mpg was great. LYNN · April 22, 2005 06:20 PM I loved my Rabbit even if it was slow (I didn't dare turn on the AC even in Las Vegas in the summer, but having a 20 gallon fuel tank meant almost 1000 miles between fill ups. I was crawling out of the Vegas valley one evening and was passed by a Winnebago. The shame! But it lasted to almost 340,000 miles for which my thin wallet was greatful. It finally cratered in I-95 one hot summer morning. It was a sad day. I still drive a diesel although it now takes the guise of a pick-up truck. Thanks for the memory, Eric. bryan · April 23, 2005 12:25 PM |
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YES! The Rabbit Diesel was slow. In Colorado we had to have it "tuned" to cut emissions, which made it slower - and very very dangerous to drive on the highway. However the 50mpg was great.