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Stability control: What do you think?
OK, folks: Threat, or menace?
Automotive News reports that suppliers of stability control systems got a boost from an insurance industry study that concludes that the technology could save 7,000 lives a year. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety compared fatality rates of similar vehicles with and without the technology. It said the technology cuts one-vehicle fatal crashes by 56 percent and all one-vehicle crashes by 41 percent. Suppliers hope the data will encourage consumers to buy vehicles equipped with stability control, which typically costs $500 or more. More details at http://www.iihs.org/news_releases/2004/pr102804.htm |
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Sounds like the same thing they once said about ABS. Look what they're saying
now... http://www.hwysafety.org/safety_fact...antilock.htm#5 ....might explain one reason why ABS is becoming more of a option these days when once they were standard equipment. |
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Sounds like the same thing they once said about ABS. Look what they're saying
now... http://www.hwysafety.org/safety_fact...antilock.htm#5 ....might explain one reason why ABS is becoming more of a option these days when once they were standard equipment. |
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> wrote > Automotive News reports that suppliers of stability control systems got a > boost from an insurance industry study that concludes that the technology > could save 7,000 lives a year. Maybe these kind of things help when the car is new, but I worry about this kind of sophisticated technology after a few years in the big bad world. |
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> wrote > Automotive News reports that suppliers of stability control systems got a > boost from an insurance industry study that concludes that the technology > could save 7,000 lives a year. Maybe these kind of things help when the car is new, but I worry about this kind of sophisticated technology after a few years in the big bad world. |
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>| In article >, says...
>| >OK, folks: Threat, or menace? >"Alex Rodriguez" > wrote in message .. . >| On good implementations, it is probably benign. >| >| >Automotive News reports that suppliers of stability control systems >| >got a boost from an insurance industry study that concludes that >| >the technology could save 7,000 lives a year. >| >| Must be the same guys who said ABS would also save thousands of >| lives, it hasn't. On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, "James C. Reeves" > wrote: >Correct...years of loss data proves it. But neither have DRLs... DRL? What's that? <snip> -- John Bartley K7AAY http://celdata.cjb.net This post quad-ROT-13 encrypted; reading it violates the DMCA. Nobody but a fool goes into a federal counterrorism operation without duct tape - Richard Preston, THE COBRA EVENT. |
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