Member Since: 03 Jan 2006
Location: Romiley
Posts: 13710
So do you go for a car thats safe for you and your occupants or safe for cyclists & pedestrians?
Only an idiot would choose the latter over the former...
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9th Oct 2006 2:59 pm
DiscoStu
Member Since: 09 Apr 2006
Location: London
Posts: 11412
randalls wrote:
er...well I actually find having a passenger in the passenger seat tends to block side vision a lot more than an A pillar, so by this logic no car at all should have a passenger seat in the front.....suck on that greenpi$$.
I'd agree with that - especially when you've got a short wife who insists on her seat all the way forwards....
Member Since: 02 Mar 2006
Location: aberdeenshire
Posts: 703
hmmm Jeff thanks for that.
'The report, produced for the Department for Transport by the Transport Research Laboratory, was completed in March but has yet to be published'
I wonder why, would that be a little to incovenient for the anti 4x4 government message & the large car tax rises the public are being softened up for...... 2007 TDV6 HSE 'Silver Lady'. With 'free' privacy glass LOL.
Taking the greenpi$$ is: Green taxing your citizens more & using some of the money to buy nukes.
9th Oct 2006 4:44 pm
Gareth Site Moderator
Member Since: 07 Dec 2004
Location: Bramhall
Posts: 26701
I've been driving the Mini today, and the visibility is much worse than my D3.
Quote:
Spen King, a former chief engineer at Rover who has been campaigning for years to get the department and car industry to take the problem seriously, said: “Manufacturers take advantage of the weak rules to go for style rather than safety. We urgently need research on the cost of crashes caused by A pillars to establish a clear basis for tightening the rules.â€
We at least have an ally in the camp, Mr Spen King no less Designer of the original Range Rover. Notice that RR Classics have lovely slim A pillars. Don't roll one though
9th Oct 2006 7:43 pm
LR Dealer
Member Since: 13 Oct 2006
Location: Kent
Posts: 41
NEWS JUST IN!!
Blinking whilst driving is to be outlawed. It has been proven that if you blink whilst driving you have a momentary 100% blind spot.
Next on tonights news, stating the obvious - does it sell more papers? Being anti 4x4 - is it trendy, or is there some other group of people we can be jealous of? Maybe we should hate people with houses?
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