Vehicle size wouldn't matter if the person driving the offending car was paying attention in the first place. Not that I should really be saying anything. I use my cell phone in the car quite a bit. Benjamin E. Neigebauer Software Engineer Compellent Technologies Eden Prairie, MN 55344 -----Original Message----- From: Matthew S. Hallacy [mailto:poptix at techmonkeys.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 2:50 PM To: TCLUG Mailing List Subject: Re: [TCLUG] RE: OT: big dumb cars On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 02:20:52PM -0600, Kent Schumacher wrote: > > Having known somebody who actually did plow *through* a fiberclass car > and merrily wiped out a family, I can tell you that the fact that he > didn't sustain injuries didn't really help him much. He managed to > survive a couple more months until his birthday and then the pain > became too much and he ended it. Perhaps we need better testing before allowing people to drive. I've seen plenty of accidents, most are caused by people being idiots talking on their cell phones, reading a newspaper, applying makeup(!), reaching into the back seat to attend to a child.. the list goes on. > For the first time in decades the survivability of a crash is going > down, and I think it's pretty safe to say it's because of the > mismatch in vehicle sizes. So complain to your neighbors in their SUV's, I actually use my vehicle for work. -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list