[DMCForum] Re: Back to SUV!

["therealdmcvegas" <dmcvegas@xxxxxxx>]

Dammit! I need to proof-read my posts before I publish them! What I 
meant to say is "That doesn't mean that there is an engineering 
problem with them, it's that people don't know how to control them." 
I poorly edited my own post, without proof-reading. My bad there.

No, I don't bame engineers. Who I blame are morons who don't know how 
to drive, and rather than gently cocking the steering wheel to 
correct their drifting out of a lane, they spin the friggin' wheel. 
These are the idiots who act like they're stunt drivers in a Jerry 
Bruckheimer film, and cause their vehicle to over-correct, and thus 
wreck.

It's like where I used to live, up in North Las Vegas. I had to drive 
a few sections of two-lane road to get home. One day as I was going 
down this road, some guy in a car coming my way isn't paying 
attention, and started to drift into my lane. I honked the horn a 
couple of times, and flashed my lights, as I began to slow down. 
Capin' Dumbass on the cell phone, grabs the steering wheel, and spins 
it right. He then starts to go off pavement, and then over corrects 
because to get off the dirt shoulder, he spins the damn steering 
wheel in the opposite direction. Except now he's slaming on his 
brakes. His rear breaks loose, and begins to fish-tail a little, 
until he regains control.

Now this guy had like 10 car lengths between he and I. And we were 
only doing like 40-, since I was slowing down. So he obviously had 
plenty of time and space between us to gently slow down, and cock his 
steering wheel enough to gently get back over. Especially since I was 
able to see all of this in front of me.

With people that that guy behind the wheel, it's no wonder that 
people keep flipping SUVs over. Especially in top-heavy, RWD trucks.

Hey man, I don't even blame the marketing deparmnets. After all, car 
makers need to put food on the table as well. And it's not like there 
is an inherent problem with their products here. It's just the morons 
who buy these things, and don't take the time to properly know how to 
use them.

That's like blaming Remington when some fool who doen't know how to 
properly handle a firearm shoots himself on a hunting trip. Same with 
marketing. No one out there is blaming Ted Nugent for marketing the 
sport of bow hunting to the wrong people, when someone gets shot with 
an arrow.

It's just Darwinism in action.

-Robert



--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Marc Levy <malevy_nj@xxxx> wrote:
> And now we are back to the discussion about how there
> are too many SUV's on the road.
> 
> Fine, don't blame th engineering department.. Blame
> the marketing department that targets soccer moms, and
> commuters to buy these products.
> 
> All of the kids around here drive these monsters too,
> I asked an acquaintance why she bought her 18 Yr old
> son a Taho as a first car??  Her response, I want him
> to be safe *WHEN* he is in an accident!  Ah, ok..  So
> most of us know that new drivers are inexperienced,
> and are much more likely to get in to an accident. 
> This SELFISH mother bought her son a machine which (in
> her mind) will protect her son while killing the old
> lady driving her neon home from the store.
> 
> --- therealdmcvegas <dmcvegas@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> <SNIP>
> > Yes, SUVs are top-heavy, and yes they are more prone
> > to roll over. But
> > that doesn't mean that because people don't know how
> > to control them,
> > that there is somehow an engineering problem with
> > their vehicles.
> <SNIP>
> 
> 
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