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Archives We notice another news item about automobile safety and crash worthiness on TV a few days ago. The Insurance company's testing lackeys are pretending to demonstrate that there are no autos that are crash worthy. The cost of repairs are much to high in low speed crashes they say. There is blatant dishonesty involved in this. Here is why. Working with the government in the past, the insurance companies
bullied the automakers into building autos that would protect
the passenger compartment in the event of high speed crashes.
The automakers did this. They designed autos with fronts and
rears that would absorb the impact of a crash by collapsing in
a staged way. As the impact progressed through the auto, there
would be more and more resistance and this designed staged damage
would protect the passengers. The insurance companies and the
government were involved in this process. That was a good thing.
Now they are claiming that this is poor design because of repair
costs. What bull! How can we assess the cost of a maimed dead
human? Do they really want to return to the rigid designs that
caused more of that? I think not. They just enjoy being diishonest. A wife and a Dog: A dog cannot play checkers or bridge. A wife has to have a prepared meal every day, but without
beer. A dog will be happy when you pass gas in bed and warm it up
for him. A dog is happy when you leave the toilet seat up. A wife will complain when you smoke a cigar even outside. Just the same, when push comes to shove, if I could only have
one, I would still choose a wife for two reasons. First, dogs
are too easy to please. There is no challenge. Two, most dogs
can't cook worth a darn. Most wives can.
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