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freebeard · 07-05-2015, 03:16 PM

I only see TV when I visit my friends. The other day we watched the local news and on one station there was a report of a fatal accident when a "1969 Beetle" failed to negotiate a corner. They didn't show the car, but the skid marks clearly showed it under-steered off the outside of the corner. ???

Then the other station showed the same story. They didn't show the skid marks but they did show the (probable 2009) New Beetle. The one with airbags and ABS.

An old Beetle would have gone off the inside of the corner backwards. Much safer.

07-05-2015, 03:16 PM	#1059 (permalink)
freebeard Master EcoModder Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: northwest of normal Posts: 28,718 Thanks: 8,151 Thanked 8,933 Times in 7,375 Posts	I only see TV when I visit my friends. The other day we watched the local news and on one station there was a report of a fatal accident when a "1969 Beetle" failed to negotiate a corner. They didn't show the car, but the skid marks clearly showed it under-steered off the outside of the corner. ??? Then the other station showed the same story. They didn't show the skid marks but they did show the (probable 2009) New Beetle. The one with airbags and ABS. An old Beetle would have gone off the inside of the corner backwards. Much safer.