Absolutely no reason to be sarcastic.

 

After reading most of his posts, my question is legitimate.

 

agreed.

 

I think that some of you do not understand how depraved and fooled we all are.
Dino speed limit is one thing, but it is not the end of it.
The people who decide give us the "Mambo Jambo" Jap cars and ban the other cars from importing to Canada. How come I do not see the following dealers:

Citroen
Peugot
Fiat
Reno
Alfa Romeo
Seat
Opel

I think somebody has to raise the issue sooner or later, because I am sick and tired of seeing these Toyota dealers all around.

 

While I agree that Adam is less than tactful, and his statements of 'fact' are usually just based on his feelings towards something, there's no need to personally insult him.

Adam, you can't just make off-the-cuff conclusions (of any accuracy, anyway) of safety based on pictures that you find on the internet. If you really want to know what you're talking about, start taking some physics/engineering classes and reading pertinent SAE articles. Many of the vehicles that you despise are relatively similar in levels of safety as VAG vehicles. Who survives in a multi-car accident between modern vehicles nearly always boils down to chance (okay, not really chance, but a physics equation with so many variables that it's essentially impossible to calculate). Or, whichever vehicle has the most mass. My car is clearly better engineered than, say, a 1990 Dodge diesel truck, but if we get into a head-on collision, I'm toast.

Regarding speeding: While I don't condone reckless driving under any circumstances, you guys can't possibly believe that speeding is inherently unsafe under all circumstances?! I speed all the time, but my car is capable, I'm extremely aware of what's going on around me, and I only do it when I deem it to be safe. Would it be safer to go slowly? Of course; but, where do we draw the line? Lower all the highway limits to 50km/hr? I think many more accidents are caused by people that have no idea what's going on around them, than by people speeding (this excludes reckless teenager types who are doomed no matter what they're doing...).

Before we worry about speeding, we should worry about the root of the problem: unskilled, inattentive drivers in poorly maintained vehicles. When there's a blizzard in my city, I can cruise down the freeway at the posted speed limit easily, while dozens of cars going 2/3 that are spinning into the ditch. In the Canadian climate, a snow test track should be mandatory for a licensing - we should all be following in the footsteps of countries like Finland. Maybe then I wouldn't have to watch 9 out of 10 people that lose traction just stomp on the gas pedal and crank the wheel

 

We just had our first snow and the whole city was late to work, because of the few drivers following too close and than slamming on the brakes.

 

I was on time

 

Because you were not on Deerfoot South

 

Actually I take Deerfoot from Memorial down to Bow Bottom...

 

I go Beddington to Memorial so we will never meet but I will wave you somewhere else.
Today the trafffic was good without the bad drivers who have their cars in body shops.