In a time of chimpanzees, I was a penguin.
The religious right is motivated by the suspicion that someone, somewhere,
is having fun -- and that this must be stopped.
I talk about the Honda and Toyota recalls over at MotoTux.
What we have here, ladies and gents, is a case where the geeks who programmed these cars have forgotten what the wrenches knew years before the geeks finished kindergarten: cars ain't a place to experiment with shit that could kill people if it goes wrong.
-- Badtux the Auto Penguin
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I worked with automotive safety-related componentry every day of my checkered, not-quite-long enough career.
ReplyDeleteIMHO, the most important thing a car does is stop when you want it to. Second is steer. Third is not spontaneously combust. Anything alse is a waaaaay distant fourth.
Cheers!
JzB the waaaaay distant fourth trombonist
Glad you commented on the latest from Japan's best.
ReplyDeleteI drive an old Cressida - one of the finest cars ever made for the mass market IMHO.
I am left wondering where the work was done on these vehicles?
China or the U.S.?
Cheers!
S