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From: crpresto@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Charlie Preston)
Subject: Re: Is car saftey important?
Message-ID: <1993Apr21.195732.15561@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 19:57:32 GMT
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In article <1993Apr20.163527.12773@bnr.ca> tcorkum@bnr.ca (Trevor Corkum) writes:
>   I was recently thumbing through the 1993 Lemon-Aid New
>Car Guide.  What I found was a car would be given a 'Recommended'
>under the picture while a few sentences later noting how a
>driver and passenger were virtually guaranteed to be killed
>in a front end collision.  The most highly recommended small
>car (The Civic) has the worst crash rating of all of the small
>cars listed.  There were many such cases of 'great' vehicles
>where you wouldn't survive an accident.  Is it only me, or is
>safety not one of the most important factors when buying a car?
>                                                                   IMHO the
best way to reduce risk when operating a vehicle is being able to avoid
hazards and, for that reason my preferred vehicle is a motorcycle.  When I do
use a four wheeler my primary reasons are: it will keep me dry, it will keep
me warm, or it will carry more cargo.  If the four wheeler has as much
collision protection as the average motorcycle, then it has enough form me.

How do you define safe?  One definition of safe is without risk.  Is


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