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May 7, 2008 at 4:37 PM #200914May 7, 2008 at 4:40 PM #200792
Dukehorn
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So when did the justification for SUVs translate from utility for trips and carrying capacity to an argument about “I’m safer but I’ll probably kill the person in the other car.”
Is that the new metric? Plan on getting into an accident and be in the biggest car available? I’ll at least save myself and kill the other person. Sounds like a plan.
May 7, 2008 at 4:40 PM #200833ParticipantCar Wars
So when did the justification for SUVs translate from utility for trips and carrying capacity to an argument about “I’m safer but I’ll probably kill the person in the other car.”
Is that the new metric? Plan on getting into an accident and be in the biggest car available? I’ll at least save myself and kill the other person. Sounds like a plan.
May 7, 2008 at 4:40 PM #200861ParticipantCar Wars
So when did the justification for SUVs translate from utility for trips and carrying capacity to an argument about “I’m safer but I’ll probably kill the person in the other car.”
Is that the new metric? Plan on getting into an accident and be in the biggest car available? I’ll at least save myself and kill the other person. Sounds like a plan.
May 7, 2008 at 4:40 PM #200884ParticipantCar Wars
So when did the justification for SUVs translate from utility for trips and carrying capacity to an argument about “I’m safer but I’ll probably kill the person in the other car.”
Is that the new metric? Plan on getting into an accident and be in the biggest car available? I’ll at least save myself and kill the other person. Sounds like a plan.
May 7, 2008 at 4:40 PM #200919ParticipantCar Wars
So when did the justification for SUVs translate from utility for trips and carrying capacity to an argument about “I’m safer but I’ll probably kill the person in the other car.”
Is that the new metric? Plan on getting into an accident and be in the biggest car available? I’ll at least save myself and kill the other person. Sounds like a plan.
May 7, 2008 at 4:57 PM #200817Anonymous
GuestDuke, I hear that argument a lot from people.
As long as there are SUV’s available to the public, people are gonna buy them. Personally, I don’t think it’s prudent to get the biggest, gas-guzzling truck around just because you like the way you look in it.
I see nothing wrong in purchasing a reasonably sized SUV that meets your needs and you feel safer carrying your kids around in such a vehicle.
SUV’s are always going to appeal to the public. The answer is for car manufacturers to make then better in terms of getting better gas mileage and being more environmentally friendly.
I didn’t get a SUV because I was concerned about rollover in the event of an accident.
May 7, 2008 at 4:57 PM #200858GuestDuke, I hear that argument a lot from people.
As long as there are SUV’s available to the public, people are gonna buy them. Personally, I don’t think it’s prudent to get the biggest, gas-guzzling truck around just because you like the way you look in it.
I see nothing wrong in purchasing a reasonably sized SUV that meets your needs and you feel safer carrying your kids around in such a vehicle.
SUV’s are always going to appeal to the public. The answer is for car manufacturers to make then better in terms of getting better gas mileage and being more environmentally friendly.
I didn’t get a SUV because I was concerned about rollover in the event of an accident.
May 7, 2008 at 4:57 PM #200886GuestDuke, I hear that argument a lot from people.
As long as there are SUV’s available to the public, people are gonna buy them. Personally, I don’t think it’s prudent to get the biggest, gas-guzzling truck around just because you like the way you look in it.
I see nothing wrong in purchasing a reasonably sized SUV that meets your needs and you feel safer carrying your kids around in such a vehicle.
SUV’s are always going to appeal to the public. The answer is for car manufacturers to make then better in terms of getting better gas mileage and being more environmentally friendly.
I didn’t get a SUV because I was concerned about rollover in the event of an accident.
May 7, 2008 at 4:57 PM #200910GuestDuke, I hear that argument a lot from people.
As long as there are SUV’s available to the public, people are gonna buy them. Personally, I don’t think it’s prudent to get the biggest, gas-guzzling truck around just because you like the way you look in it.
I see nothing wrong in purchasing a reasonably sized SUV that meets your needs and you feel safer carrying your kids around in such a vehicle.
SUV’s are always going to appeal to the public. The answer is for car manufacturers to make then better in terms of getting better gas mileage and being more environmentally friendly.
I didn’t get a SUV because I was concerned about rollover in the event of an accident.
May 7, 2008 at 4:57 PM #200945GuestDuke, I hear that argument a lot from people.
As long as there are SUV’s available to the public, people are gonna buy them. Personally, I don’t think it’s prudent to get the biggest, gas-guzzling truck around just because you like the way you look in it.
I see nothing wrong in purchasing a reasonably sized SUV that meets your needs and you feel safer carrying your kids around in such a vehicle.
SUV’s are always going to appeal to the public. The answer is for car manufacturers to make then better in terms of getting better gas mileage and being more environmentally friendly.
I didn’t get a SUV because I was concerned about rollover in the event of an accident.
May 7, 2008 at 5:48 PM #200887SDEngineer
Participant“Are you one of MANY MANY people that still believes Al Gore invented the internet?”
Just an OT reply on a OT thread – Al Gore never claimed to have invented the internet. He did, however, claim to have taken the initiative to create the internet – a claim that is backed by Vint Cerf (who is one of the prime personages who actually could be said to have “invented” – at least in large part – the internet). In context, it is absolutely clear that Gore’s comments about the internet had to do with his role as one of the primary congressmembers who saw the potential and actively lobbied for funding for the nascent internet in the 80’s. The idea that he thought – or intended for anyone else to think – that he had somehow engineered the entire thing himself is ludicrous on it’s face, and a prime example of “soundbite” politics at it’s most dishonest.
Al Gore steered a LOT of funding towards the interconnection of the various disparate networks that were rising in the 80s (cerfNet, ARPAnet, etc) into a unified whole. He was probably the most technologically savvy senator during the 80s, and clearly had a very good idea of what was being done with those funds. Without Al Gore, it is likely that the unification of the various networks would have taken considerably longer.
May 7, 2008 at 5:48 PM #200928Participant“Are you one of MANY MANY people that still believes Al Gore invented the internet?”
Just an OT reply on a OT thread – Al Gore never claimed to have invented the internet. He did, however, claim to have taken the initiative to create the internet – a claim that is backed by Vint Cerf (who is one of the prime personages who actually could be said to have “invented” – at least in large part – the internet). In context, it is absolutely clear that Gore’s comments about the internet had to do with his role as one of the primary congressmembers who saw the potential and actively lobbied for funding for the nascent internet in the 80’s. The idea that he thought – or intended for anyone else to think – that he had somehow engineered the entire thing himself is ludicrous on it’s face, and a prime example of “soundbite” politics at it’s most dishonest.
Al Gore steered a LOT of funding towards the interconnection of the various disparate networks that were rising in the 80s (cerfNet, ARPAnet, etc) into a unified whole. He was probably the most technologically savvy senator during the 80s, and clearly had a very good idea of what was being done with those funds. Without Al Gore, it is likely that the unification of the various networks would have taken considerably longer.
May 7, 2008 at 5:48 PM #200956Participant“Are you one of MANY MANY people that still believes Al Gore invented the internet?”
Just an OT reply on a OT thread – Al Gore never claimed to have invented the internet. He did, however, claim to have taken the initiative to create the internet – a claim that is backed by Vint Cerf (who is one of the prime personages who actually could be said to have “invented” – at least in large part – the internet). In context, it is absolutely clear that Gore’s comments about the internet had to do with his role as one of the primary congressmembers who saw the potential and actively lobbied for funding for the nascent internet in the 80’s. The idea that he thought – or intended for anyone else to think – that he had somehow engineered the entire thing himself is ludicrous on it’s face, and a prime example of “soundbite” politics at it’s most dishonest.
Al Gore steered a LOT of funding towards the interconnection of the various disparate networks that were rising in the 80s (cerfNet, ARPAnet, etc) into a unified whole. He was probably the most technologically savvy senator during the 80s, and clearly had a very good idea of what was being done with those funds. Without Al Gore, it is likely that the unification of the various networks would have taken considerably longer.
May 7, 2008 at 5:48 PM #200982Participant“Are you one of MANY MANY people that still believes Al Gore invented the internet?”
Just an OT reply on a OT thread – Al Gore never claimed to have invented the internet. He did, however, claim to have taken the initiative to create the internet – a claim that is backed by Vint Cerf (who is one of the prime personages who actually could be said to have “invented” – at least in large part – the internet). In context, it is absolutely clear that Gore’s comments about the internet had to do with his role as one of the primary congressmembers who saw the potential and actively lobbied for funding for the nascent internet in the 80’s. The idea that he thought – or intended for anyone else to think – that he had somehow engineered the entire thing himself is ludicrous on it’s face, and a prime example of “soundbite” politics at it’s most dishonest.
Al Gore steered a LOT of funding towards the interconnection of the various disparate networks that were rising in the 80s (cerfNet, ARPAnet, etc) into a unified whole. He was probably the most technologically savvy senator during the 80s, and clearly had a very good idea of what was being done with those funds. Without Al Gore, it is likely that the unification of the various networks would have taken considerably longer.
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