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Tue Sep 22, 2009 10:39 am |
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Amskeptic wrote: ccpalmer wrote: Obviously the color of your Bus made no difference in that occasion Colin - I certainly didn't mean to imply that. I was just trying to point out some other factors in vehicle safety, visibility being one of them.
I remember driving a white Bus through a snowstorm in Wyoming at night. At a rest stop a truck driver said "You're crazy to be driving a white vehicle through this shit". Made a lot of sense to me at the time.
This is true. A gunmetal grey Buick in a misty early morning fog without any parking lamps or headlamps is a candidate for not being seen.
Meanwhile, I just read of a woman killed when she pulled out from a side road and got creamed by a semi. Please. How do you not see a semi? I honestly think that distraction is taking us out. TVs vomit blather and short-take video, iPod wearing headphone junkies, gas stations that pump out lousy advertising jangles, and trash trucks and public buses and construction vehicles have those reversing beepers that we are all becoming deaf and senseless to, and we are desensitizing to our environment. I know very few people who exercise their self-preservation animal instincts, particularly while driving.
Colin
I have thought of welding in vertical braces between the heavier metal of the energy absorption area and the fresh air ducting to lessen the chance of an SUV crashing through the metal above the bumper. I figure that this might well save my legs. Probably wouldn't have to weigh much to make a difference maybe 20 pounds or so. It would be hidden behind the kick panels. |
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