You miss the whole concept of safety regulations involving motor vehicles. Although there are inherent dangers in driving and riding in motor vehicles there are many things that can be done to reduce injuries, fatalities, and the chances of even having an accident. Many of these improvements are useful to all, even careful, safe drivers. Today it is recognized that things like seat belts, crumple zones, safety glass, just to name a few, can protect everyone when a human makes a mistake (which we all do). It is not a matter of "if you can handle it". Since the automakers were not taking the lead in introducing safety into cars the government stepped in and mandated it for everyone's benefit. Many of us are alive now because of these laws. It has the side benefit of keeping insurance costs down since the accident rate, fatality rate, and injury rate have been lowered. Today's cars are made to sacrifice themselves (absorb the energy) so that the occupants don't have to. The car may get totaled but the occupants can walk away. A recent accident on the L.I.E in NY demonstrates how a car can be totaly unrecognizable after an accident yet the driver survived with minor injuries. A tractor- trailer went out-of-control and just swept the poor guy in an Audi into the divider and squished him and a schoolbus against the divider. It was all caught on video by the school bus camera. The Audi looked like it went through a shredder! David Teitelbaum vin 10757 --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "cbl1739" <cbl302@...> wrote: > > > Any motor vehicle is only dangerious,if you cannot handle it,or drive > reckless, 99 9/10 of Delorean owners know better,and the rear end of > the car is of more concern(from being rear-ended)since that is setup > very well for a collision(as testified by previous posters in the To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/