Subj : Re: Reason:Tired Rules
To   : Allen Birkholz
From : John Wilson
Date : Sun Aug 05 2001 04:31 am

-=> Allen Birkholz wrote to All <=-


 AB> The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has
 AB> ruled that vehicles made after November 2003 must be equipped
 AB> with tire pressure warning systems visible to a driver too stupid
 AB> to notice when his or her tires are underinflated.

 Well, that just a temporary measure, 'till they mandate automatic
 tire-pressure-checking devices installed in every gas station.

 Hey, you'd save 40,000 lives a year by mandating a 35 mph governer
 on every vehicle. Damn it, if government's goin' to take control, it might as
 well _really_ take control! Where are the tooth-brush police?
 Work that is tiring and/or boring is the obvious fault of the employer;
 corrective practices should be implimented by we courageous liberals,
 cause we were *all* hurt as children, and --- wait! Manditory hugs!
 That's the ticket!...

 (Sometimes I'm a traitor to my own side :-)

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 AB> Implicit in the rule is the conclusion, apparent to anyone with a
 AB> passing acquaintance with physics, that the Firestone-Explorer
 AB> issue--whatever the contributory faults of either product--was
 AB> primarily a matter of driver error.

 Ah. A point not often made.

 Cheers!


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