Maybe that's supposed to be the point, to make it safer for OTHER
drivers that drive smaller cars when we smash into 'em?
But if that's the case, I guess they'll be takin' all the big rigs off
the roads huh? Not likely....
They should just leave 'em the way they are. I like knowing I outweigh
most small cars by double their weight! Go ahead, try and run me off the
road! : )
Richard Collins
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rader [SMTP:rlr@bbt.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 1998 9:36 AM
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: DML: Safety BS
>
> > Chrysler Corp. spokesman Mike Rosenu [...]
> > said the automaker already has implemented its new hydroforming
> > technology in the 1998 Dodge Durango and 1997 Dakota
>
> > It makes the vehicle lighter by taking out the unnecessary weight -
> thus
> > making it safer for car drivers if involved in a collision - but
> does not
> > affect its strength, he said.
>
> The sounds like a line of BS to me. They want to cut weight for
> CAFE
> and cost reasons, that I can understand. But this safety bit is all
> politics. If anything, cutting mass from the vehicle will actually
> make
> it more UNSAFE in a collision for that vehicle's driver & passengers.
>
> CC is just trying to deflect all the crap people are spouting about
> SUVs
> being menaces on the road, and unsafe because they are bigger. Could
> that
> be because they are actually descended from trucks? No duh!
>
> Ron "Take That Econobox And Shove It" Rader
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