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

   You or some one important to you are the recipient of a severe rear
   ender or other unimaginable and
   unforseen act of automotive mayhem.

   Phil
   ----- Original Message -----
   From: Fellippe Galletta <fellippe.galletta [at] gmail.com>
   Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008 12:04 pm
   Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Weight of Modern Sports Cars
   To: Phil Tegtmeier <philville [at] dejazzd.com>
   Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
   > 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
   > >
   > > Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
   >
   > 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
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