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1. Bumper Height, ABS, Air Bags, and Pseudo-Safety (score: 1): Author: "Glen R. Wilson" <railroad@itw.com>; Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 01:06:15 -0400; I'm coming in on this late, so forgive me if I'm repeating someone. The change in ride height on the MG cars was supposed to bring them into conformance with someone's idea of a ride height standard.; /html/mgs/1996-04/msg00464.html (10,215 bytes)
2. Re: Bumper Height, ABS, Air Bags, and Pseudo-Safety (score: 1): Author: Ragthyme@aol.com; Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 12:00:31 -0400; I agree with you re: ABS. Can't stand them ... and I've never had to steer and fully brake at the same time, either. I have seen what happens when an airbag deploys; my other half got run over by a; /html/mgs/1996-04/msg00470.html (10,427 bytes)
3. Re: Bumper Height, ABS, Air Bags, and Pseudo-Safety (score: 1): Author: SimJaysun@aol.com; Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 12:26:02 -0400; Glen, you're not alone in this sentiment...especially on the ABS brakes. I have a '95 Chevy Blazer LT with ABS brakes, and I feel the same way. I have found that on a dry surface, if you need to stop; /html/mgs/1996-04/msg00473.html (8,470 bytes)
4. Re: Bumper Height, ABS, Air Bags, and Pseudo-Safety (score: 1): Author: "W. R. Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>; Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 12:32:06 -0400 (EDT); Get the power wagon. Road and Track, or maybe it was Car and Driver, just finished a long term report of a Rover, and one of the major expenses was that the brush guards kept falling off and getting; /html/mgs/1996-04/msg00478.html (9,035 bytes)
5. Re: Bumper Height, ABS, Air Bags, and Pseudo-Safety (score: 1): Author: Robert J Donahue/DELCO <RJDONAHU@mail.delcoelect.com>; Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 13:36:22 +0000; Does anybody else get the feeling that we are spending loads of money to make accidents survivable, but nothing to prevent them? Bob Donahue 51 MG-TD 71 MGB; /html/mgs/1996-04/msg00483.html (8,029 bytes)
6. Re: Bumper Height, ABS, Air Bags, and Pseudo-Safety (score: 1): Author: "W. R. Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>; Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 16:16:48 -0400 (EDT); I agree. While many list people like their rubber bumper B's, how many think that the change improved the safety of the car? These changes add a lot of cost, and part of the result is that cars are s; /html/mgs/1996-04/msg00489.html (9,892 bytes)
7. RE: Bumper Height, ABS, Air Bags, and Pseudo-Safety (score: 1): Author: "Ernest E. Gilbert" <barrister@lawref.com>; Date: Wed, 17 Apr 96 13:54:43 -0700; Does anybody else get the feeling that we are spending loads of money to make accidents survivable, but nothing to prevent them? If a food seasoning were proven to kill and injur as many persons per; /html/mgs/1996-04/msg00490.html (9,640 bytes)
8. Re: Bumper Height, ABS, Air Bags, and Pseudo-Safety (score: 1): Author: SimJaysun@aol.com; Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 20:58:59 -0400; Perhaps because preventing accidents (or collisions, which ever you prefer), would primarily demand most people to have common sense...a thing not likely to occur any time soon, I think. (not to sou; /html/mgs/1996-04/msg00498.html (8,871 bytes)
9. Re: Bumper Height, ABS, Air Bags, and Pseudo-Safety (score: 1): Author: SimJaysun@aol.com; Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 21:07:06 -0400; More on common sense... My friend and I were discussing an interesting topic, regarding common sense, prompted by the sight of a guy taking an off-ramp from the highway, at a speed I'd rarely use in; /html/mgs/1996-04/msg00499.html (9,294 bytes)
10. Re: Bumper Height, ABS, Air Bags, and Pseudo-Safety (score: 1): Author: jurrasm@genesis.torrco.com (Mark Jurras); Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 07:50:15 -0400; My college roomate rolled me over in his car because he was trying to negotiate a curve with the wheels locked up. ABS would have saved him. (If I were driving I would have saved us). The accident i; /html/mgs/1996-04/msg00511.html (9,605 bytes)
11. Re: Bumper Height, ABS, Air Bags, and Pseudo-Safety (score: 1): Author: "REICHLE, CHRISTOPHER" <CREICHLE@nsc.msmail.miami.edu>; Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 10:55:00 -0700 (PDT); In order to get my license a year early when I was living in NY, I took a drivers ed course where they did go over some basic stuff like you have to change your oil etc. Very basic stuff but there we; /html/mgs/1996-04/msg00622.html (9,830 bytes)
12. Re: Bumper Height, ABS, Air Bags, and Pseudo-Safety (score: 1): Author: jurrasm@genesis.torrco.com (Mark Jurras); Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 07:34:50 -0400; The point of ABS is not to stop faster rather it is to keep the car from going out of control during panic stops. Some cars more than others tend to have the rear end pass the front end under panic; /html/mgs/1996-04/msg00624.html (9,728 bytes)
13. Re: Bumper Height, ABS, Air Bags, and Pseudo-Safety (score: 1): Author: Stephen Brook <em92ssb@brunel.ac.uk>; Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 11:55:08 BST; Call me stupid, but what difference would ABS have made that would have prevented you from rolling the car? Did you hit something that you would not have hit if you had been able to steer properly?; /html/mgs/1996-04/msg00626.html (8,996 bytes)
14. Re: Bumper Height, ABS, Air Bags, and Pseudo-Safety (score: 1): Author: "Glen R. Wilson" <railroad@itw.com>; Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 12:37:41 -0400; I don't mean to jump all over you here, but your comments on the function of ABS _miss_ the point which is that brakes are supposed to stop the forward motion of the vehicle. The purpose of any brak; /html/mgs/1996-04/msg00637.html (10,212 bytes)
15. Re: Bumper Height, ABS, Air Bags, and Pseudo-Safety (score: 1): Author: "U. Goettsch" <ulix@u.washington.edu>; Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 11:07:36 -0700 (PDT); In this case the ABS should have allowed you to brake AND steer around the car in front of you (I prefer the ditch to a crash any day). This either was impossible in your case, or you elected not to; /html/mgs/1996-04/msg00639.html (10,847 bytes)
16. Re: Bumper Height, ABS, Air Bags, and Pseudo-Safety (score: 1): Author: jurrasm@genesis.torrco.com (Mark Jurras); Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 08:37:35 -0400; - -snip- - You were going 35MPH on BLACK ICE and you blame ABS for your accident?? I live in southern New England and we have our share of black ice, ice storms and snow. When you are on ice or blac; /html/mgs/1996-04/msg00662.html (9,983 bytes)
17. Re: Bumper Height, ABS, Air Bags, and Pseudo-Safety (score: 1): Author: jurrasm@genesis.torrco.com (Mark Jurras); Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 08:22:11 -0400; We were driving through the Berkshires (mountain range) in upstate New York. It had snowed about 1/2 inch the night before. As we were ascending a hill at 25 MPH my roommate decided that we were goi; /html/mgs/1996-04/msg00664.html (9,833 bytes)

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