Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Unless of course........

[Fellippe Galletta (fellippe.galletta]

Perhaps....I did get rear ended in the rain in one on a highway exit
ramp and the sound of  the screeching car behind was far worse than
the actual impact.

The crumple zone technology is more important than the actual mass of the car.

FG

On 11/30/08, philville dejazzd.com <philville [at] dejazzd.com> wrote:
> "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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