Re: Safety smafety

[Alexei M Voloshin <Alexei.M.Voloshin-1@tc.umn.edu>]

On Sat, 10 Aug 1996, human wrote:

> -- [ From: human * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --
> 
> Other People Said Strange Things Like...
> 
> >Drop all the nerdy stuff and "...put as much metal as you can between you 
> and the other guy...."  
> 
> so drive a Sherman tank??
> 
> >Thought that was pretty cool, and, pretty telling  [caddy v. civic--where
> do you want to be?].
> 
> I don't want to drive a land yacht, I don't want to be drive the civic.  How
> about being in an Audi, avoiding the collision and getting an adrenaline
> rush for your trouble?
> 
> 	
> >Hey, there're two kinds of safety philosophies:
> >
> >1. It's safer to go through an object than to avoid it. 
> >
> >2. It's safer to avoid an object than go through it.
> 
> I never realised #1 could be considered a philosophy...

I'll give you a hint about #1 (Volvo 240 DL), my friend has one, it 
scares me to sit in that car when he takes it 25 MPH on a cloverleaf even 
with Aquatreds on. I'm not even talking about ON-CAR-PER-GREEN highway 
merging!

Alex