THEY DON’T BUILD THEM LIKE THEY USED TO
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by Gunther Doerfert, Auto Safety Columnist
THEY DON’T BUILD THEM LIKE THEY USED TO
DETROIT, MI: Looking back at the new autos of 45 years ago, today's safety improvements are astounding. What is the expected today was just a gleam in a safety engineer's eye back then, if even that. Those who were driving that long ago probably had no thought of safety belts, air bags, side protective steel beams, safety glass, padding, collapsing steering columns, 5 mile bumpers, crumple zones, anti-lock brakes, halogen headlights, cell phones, ground positioning system, satellite radio and the list goes on. For more such discussion please go to my feature article “Then and Now” at this URL http://www.aarp.org/life/drive/drivered/Articles/a2004-06-22-thenandnow.htm
In 1966 there were 5.5 fatalities for each 100 million miles driven. By 1994 the safety improvements had reduced this to 1.7 deaths. None-the-less in '66 alone we killed off 50,894 persons (about the same number we lost in Vietnam). By '94 that had dropped to 40,676 despite the total miles driven having doubled. And by 2003 with number of miles driven increased again the number of fatalities increased to over 42,000 and 2.9 million injuries.
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Is killing only 42,000 persons a year something to be accepted? Not if it is you or your loved one that’s gone! What will you do to stop this killing? Or is your attitude that it is less than die each year from smoking related illness?
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by Gunther Doerfert, Auto Safety Columnist
THEY DON’T BUILD THEM LIKE THEY USED TO
DETROIT, MI: Looking back at the new autos of 45 years ago, today's safety improvements are astounding. What is the expected today was just a gleam in a safety engineer's eye back then, if even that. Those who were driving that long ago probably had no thought of safety belts, air bags, side protective steel beams, safety glass, padding, collapsing steering columns, 5 mile bumpers, crumple zones, anti-lock brakes, halogen headlights, cell phones, ground positioning system, satellite radio and the list goes on. For more such discussion please go to my feature article “Then and Now” at this URL http://www.aarp.org/life/drive/drivered/Articles/a2004-06-22-thenandnow.htm
In 1966 there were 5.5 fatalities for each 100 million miles driven. By 1994 the safety improvements had reduced this to 1.7 deaths. None-the-less in '66 alone we killed off 50,894 persons (about the same number we lost in Vietnam). By '94 that had dropped to 40,676 despite the total miles driven having doubled. And by 2003 with number of miles driven increased again the number of fatalities increased to over 42,000 and 2.9 million injuries.
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Is killing only 42,000 persons a year something to be accepted? Not if it is you or your loved one that’s gone! What will you do to stop this killing? Or is your attitude that it is less than die each year from smoking related illness?
GHD61 all rights reserved wellnessebooks.com/ebookstore.asp
posted by WRECK-LESS at Friday, March 18, 2005
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