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Subject:Re: Are they still making the bus/Vanagon anywhere these days?
From:rpc
Date:Sun, 8 Apr 2007 17:35:13 -0700

Don't worry jake, at the New York International auto show April 5th, this NEWS:

     "All new vehicles (USA) will be required to have anti-rollover technology by the 2012 model year, the government said Thursday, predicting it could prevent thousands of roadway deaths a year.
The technology, known as electronic stability control, or ESC, has been called the greatest safety advance since the seat belt..."

  There ya go. They say it will only add a few hundred bucks to the price of your "Vanagon II".

  Chris C
  90 mv

  Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

When I was a kid, the cars were weak and the drivers were adequate, but it
seems that nowadays the cars are really advanced and driver training hasn't
kept up. I hear at least twice a week about a 'rollover' on Hwy 1 outside
of Vancouver and I'd swear that I never heard of a single one from
1971-1999.

Call me cranky, but I'm blaming video games and weak licensing/enforcement
regimes for the dumbing down of modern drivers.

Jake

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