Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Weight of Modern Sports Cars

[Fellippe Galletta (fellippe.galletta]

On 11/30/08, rolindsay [at] yahoo.com <rolindsay [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've stayed out of this thread until now because I have strong feelings
> about this topic, and here they are;
>
> + We are safety crazy and that stems from the refusal to take responsibility
> for our own actions.  We want the security of public transportation without
> actually having to use public transportation.
>
> + Any car that you either have to know ANYTHING about or that you can't
> drive while talking on the phone, sipping latte and sending txt messages, is
> called "dangerous".
>
> + Besides, if we were responsible for our own actions OR could actually pay
> enough attention to the job at hand, we wouldn't get to sue everyone we
> didn't like!
>
> This all goes back to a quote I heard more than a decade ago, "In a modern
> car you can safely fly into a turn at 90mph, sipping a latte while talking
> on the phone and digging around in the glove box for a pen. Sit down in a
> 308GTB and it says to you, 'I'm going to kill you!  Now try to stop me.'"
>  Keeping it from doing so is called "driving".  Anything less is just
> "riding."
>
> Two cents please. PayPal accepted.
>
> Rick
> A couple of Ferraris
> A couple of Mercedes
> A BMW and a Land Rover
>
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I agree, it really is about the driver(s) not so much the cars themselves.

In an ideal world, all this safety progress would be there to save you
from accidents beyond your control. However, most of such accidents
are impossible to survive anyways (e.g. drunk driver through a red
light, a tree falling on your car, etc).

Not saying I'm against it all, but all the safety standards from a mid
'90s Volvo onwards would probably be good enough.

FG