Re: Airbags - only last 10 years ?

David Taylor wrote:
> Huw <hedydd[nospam]@tiscali.co.uk> wrote on Sat, 31 Dec 2005 13:25:06
> -0000:
>> Adrian wrote:
>>>
>>> Umm, absolutely. I rather think you're missing the point of TVR...
>>
>> I don't think so. If the point is to have an overly powerful car that
>> corners tail-out on ordianary public roads during ordinary journies
>> then I do not see the point. If however a TVR driver wished to do so
>> when he judged it safe to do so then he could switch it off if it
>> was so fitted, then yes, I would see the point [of the off switch].
>> However I suspect that the real reason is indeed the cost. Not the
>> cost of the hardware but the cost of setting up the control
>> alogarithms for such low volume cars.
>> Whatever the reason is, you can probably tell that I don't agree
>> with it and would not buy one when there is plenty of choice out
>> there that are not based on stone-age technology and safety systems.
>
> Choice is good. You don't have to buy one, but the fact that it
> exists for those who want it is, IMO, a good thing.

It deserves to be consigned to the dustbin of history if it cannot compete
on equal terms in safety matters. I can only think of one volume model that
is of a different and inferior era in safety terms and still in production.
That is the Land Rover Defender. Even that can have abs and traction control
these days though, but it is not safe enough to be sold in America and it
shouldn't be considered to be good enough for us this side of the Pond.
Unless we are inferior and less deserving of safer vehicles?

Huw


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