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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Are cars too safe to be... safe?]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</guid><description><![CDATA[Ummm someone needs to read their own website more often. Same article was mentioned on here two days ago.<br><br><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/21/flipside-is-crash-safety-endangering-survivors/" rel="nofollow">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/21/flipside-is-crash-safety-endangering-survivors/</a>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Snutz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 23rd 2008 4:43PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Are cars too safe to be... safe?]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</guid><description><![CDATA[+1]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Frick]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 23rd 2008 4:51PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Are cars too safe to be... safe?]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</guid><description><![CDATA[I was wondering where I saw it before..]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Chaz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 23rd 2008 5:05PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Are cars too safe to be... safe?]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</guid><description><![CDATA[same... I thought it was a deja-vu or I read it off another site.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[pscs]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 23rd 2008 5:27PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Are cars too safe to be... safe?]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</guid><description><![CDATA[Werd!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bert]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 23rd 2008 5:36PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Are cars too safe to be... safe?]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</guid><description><![CDATA[Ok, so the choice is between possibly dying if ER crews cannot cut me out quickly enough, versus certain death in some old clunker that at least they'll be able to scrape my remains out of easily.<br><br>I'll take the first option, thanks.<br><br>This is about as newsworthy as the old adages about people drowning because of seatbelts, therefore seatbelts were unsafe.  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[psarhjinian]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 23rd 2008 4:53PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Are cars too safe to be... safe?]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</guid><description><![CDATA[indeed.  The whole article is a bunch of BS.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[info]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 23rd 2008 5:27PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Are cars too safe to be... safe?]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</guid><description><![CDATA[+1<br><br>Especially since it's not unreasonable to assume rescue crews will adapt over time.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kaptain75329]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 23rd 2008 11:23PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Are cars too safe to be... safe?]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</guid><description><![CDATA[I thought airbags used a small explosive charge to generate the gas required to inflate an airbag, since keeping a compressed tank of gas on board the vehicle would be hazardous and unreliable.  Plus, if the accident is severe enough to require the Jaws of Life for extraction, wouldn't we have to assume that the airbags would have already deployed?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yar]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 23rd 2008 4:59PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Are cars too safe to be... safe?]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</guid><description><![CDATA[+1]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Chaz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 23rd 2008 5:07PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Are cars too safe to be... safe?]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</guid><description><![CDATA[actually, its not safe to assume that the airbags have gone off no matter how severe the accident.  undeployed airbags are a major safety concern for rescue crews.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[andre lavoie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 23rd 2008 5:38PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Are cars too safe to be... safe?]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</guid><description><![CDATA[Not always, under certain circumstances where it's better for an airbag not to go off, it doesn't.  Or there could be a malfunction.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[sw]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 23rd 2008 5:47PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Are cars too safe to be... safe?]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</guid><description><![CDATA[If we had sophisticated enough traffic management systems, we could all drive vehicles made of cardboard.  There would be no "accidents".]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Galley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 23rd 2008 5:00PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Are cars too safe to be... safe?]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</guid><description><![CDATA[Ah yes, the DOT can simply regulate us into driving nirvana!  No amount of "sophistication" will stop all accidents, as long as people are driving.  Even if cars were set on computer-guided rails (which will never happen) there would still be accidents due to mechanical failure and other unforeseeable mishaps.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yar]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 23rd 2008 5:12PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Are cars too safe to be... safe?]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</guid><description><![CDATA["No amount of "sophistication" will stop all accidents, as long as people are driving"....<br><br>especially if epople have gone through the US way of "driver education."]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[info]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 23rd 2008 5:26PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Are cars too safe to be... safe?]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</guid><description><![CDATA[As far as the hybrid thing..<br><br>I always thought extraction using the jaws of life involved severing the A or B pillar and/or seperating the door. Why would there be high voltage wiring in those parts of the car?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Chaz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 23rd 2008 5:10PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Are cars too safe to be... safe?]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</guid><description><![CDATA[how bout a mercedes jaws of life?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hike15]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 23rd 2008 5:15PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Are cars too safe to be... safe?]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</guid><description><![CDATA[I'd sooner Jaguar reliability than Mercedes reliability in such a crucial device.<br><br>Imagine that 20 years ago :o]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Chaz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 23rd 2008 5:37PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Are cars too safe to be... safe?]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</guid><description><![CDATA[The first sentence is very true. My Ford Focus recently saved my life in an impact with a semi.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Robb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 23rd 2008 5:49PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Are cars too safe to be... safe?]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/01/are-cars-too-safe-to-be-safe/</guid><description><![CDATA[If they're that safe... why can't you just open the door?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[john]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 23rd 2008 6:40PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>