Quite right! So even if you want to throw out ethics of any kind for a second and use pure Darwinism to guide your policies, you'd still want safe vehicles. This is due to the potential for losing life that didn't do anything to win the award, with is highly unproductive to a society and to the gene pool.

I absolutely agree that the drivers training in the USA is abysmal. But even with perfect training you can't prevent 400 million people from ever making a mistake with one of the most common deadly weapons in America (a vehicle). And while I'm all for getting rid of stupid warning labels on things that should be…

"As an aside, drunk drivers are much more likely to survive or avoid injury in traffic accidents because they often don't see the accident coming, which leaves their muscles loose and their bodies relaxed"

You, Sir, have just won the internet for the day. Way to up the intellectual level of your post while also ignoring his trolling personal jabs. Many strong jalops have not stood as strong as you :)

"Yep. Safety stuff is great and all, but most "accidents" are because vehicle operators are inadequately skilled/trained, or not giving the task at hand sufficient attention."

"After watching a Bronco t-bone and total a Grand Am while only bending its billet grille, I understood why my mom wanted me to have my Bronco as my first car."

My guess is that a former F1 doctor is not forgetting the athletic shape of this particular patient. Also, by "not return the same" you do realize that it won't take much loss for him to never race in F1 again, right? If I lose 5% of my reflexive ability (or anything else) I may not even really notice, and can…

Say you're driving along. You're in a 4 wheel drive car, with adequate but not great tires on. You look in your rear view mirror and you see one of your 2 wheel drive brotheren behind you. Up ahead is a hill you both need to climb. You decide for the safety of everyone that it would be best to slow your safe speed of…

Also, what makes the BMW Driver an asshat? By the comments it looks like it is opening someone's door? Because the conversation is quick, his body language does not look angry or enraged. He could have simply said "Buddy, it's illegal to block an interception, have a good day". He then calmly gets back in his own car.…

I'm not sure I get it, perhaps because I don't know German road rules, so I'll relay what I know about driving rules where I live.

"One former F1 driver and a LeMans winner. Not too bad"

That very well could be. In this case the winner may have won by a "small" margin, but it started furthest back and passed every other car on track to get that little margin :)

While I don't doubt it's rather rigged, is the winner of this one really one of Japan's "Darlings" ? That would be news to me.

I'm not sure what criteria we're using here, but I'd more heavily weigh the motorsport history into it, in which case the 635CSi and E30 rank above the e28 in my book.

I'm not a fanboy, but I'll wait for the Porsche engineers to dig up some facts and for the official report, than some "unnamed", "off the record" source that is speaking about an "unofficial" report. For all we know they're quoting the rookie who overheard a few people talking over lunch.

Whoops, I was mixing you and jivecom up. Please ignore me ;)

"FFS, I was talking about consent for breath or blood tests. Not to search your damn car. And, that doesn't cover having a license or being able to drive. This says that you can go anywhere, not how you can get there."

Honestly curious here...

Did I argue that all foreign action taking by the US was on some sort of moral high ground? No. Only that keeping our military to ourselves and letting China be the dominate power is, in my humble opinion, a bad idea, and likely to cause more than "thousands of dead" in an indirect manner, and instead cause millions…

" But we operate as world police b/c it protects our large corporate interests. There is no way we let that many resources go directly under Chinese dominion w/out exploring every possible avenue of stopping same"