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From: an@hou2h.UUCP (A.NGUYEN)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: More on Trucks
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Date: Tue, 17-Apr-84 20:32:41 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 17 20:32:41 1984
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> Wheeler:
> .. The smaller cars do much more of the popping in and out of tight
> spots than the monsters. The bigger cars just plow ahead ..

It's no accident (!) that little cars are a lot more responsive than
big cars.  Detroit Boats are so ponderous that the average Joe/Jane
Motorist simply doesn't have the reflexes to "pop in and out" of
traffic.  (Of course, the average American also have such a fat neck
that it's painful to turn its head to check the blind spot, but that's
another story.)

NOTE THAT I AM *NOT* CONDONING OR ENCOURAGING SLOPPY DRIVING HABITS!
I believe that everyone should be held accountable for what they do.
If they die, so be it.

> When a small car driver [cuts off others], [his] chances of survival
> are a hell of a lot less than for someone in a Detroit Tank.

You have not heard the theory that little cars just get bunted out
of the way when hit, rather than resist and get crumpled.  Open to
debate of course.

> I was just trying to point out that there are brainless idiots out
> there who try to squeeze into spaces where they ought not to be.

Fine, I'm not stopping you.  Just remove any implication that small
car drivers are suicidal maniacs.

> I used to love the Bug owners who bragged that they could go anywhere
> in the snow. I usually passed them somewhere on the road as they were
> trying to dig two feet of snow out from under their wheels. 

Bugs *can* go quite a few places with those tall and skinny tyres. 
Skinny to better cut through the slush and bite on terra firma; and
tall to ride over ruts, not follow them.  Of course, there are
always those who exceed the limits of the machine and go into the
ditch, but that's not really the Bug's fault.

	Au