In any kind of bad weather a pickup truck is about the WORST vehicle to have.
The pickups of today are especially bad. Big engines, light rear ends and bad
gas mileage.
But wait you say, how could bad gas mileage make pickup trucks more dangerous?
I know this one because I've been there. Bad gas mileage gets worse in four
wheel drive so some pickup truck drivers will try to get away without being in
four wheel drive in conditions where they really should be using it.
A pickup truck in slippery conditions in 2wd is downright dangerous, especially
an automatic transmission truck, especially an overpowered automatic
transmissioned truck (which is like 90% of pickups being made today).
Don't get me wrong I love having a v8 in my Dodge Dakota but having taken on a
guardrail while traveling sideways at 60mph up Rt 95 at the tail end of a
snowstorm I've learned to be vary wary...
We were going up a fairly small hill, anybody who's driven 95 in southern Maine
knows its made up of mostly gently rolling hills. The snow had quit an hour or
so before and the roads were mostly clear so I'd shifted into 2wd to save some
gas. I was young and dumb.
I was going a bit faster than was prudent (young and dumb) even though the back
end of the truck had kicked out a bit a couple times before.
So finally the back end kicked out so bad I couldn't get it back. The big
problem was that I was used to driving a manual transmission which doesn't
shift by itself. On those hills the auto would shift and the increase torque
would send us skittering. I've since learned to manually take it out of
overdrive in those conditions. Oh and I drive slower now too and gas mileage be
dammed I keep it in 4wd.
Anyway my story ends pretty well, we slid down the crown of the road into the
guardrail which was fortunately covered in snow. Bounced off, slid 180 degrees
and came to a stop without getting hit by traffic. The bumper was dented up and
some plastic trim damaged but still intact. I've left it that way as a
reminder...
Note that at this point I'd been driving for 6 years and had logged probably
90,000 miles, much of it in the snow. The problem was that I was inexperienced
with that vehicle and fueled with a bit of remaining young man testosterone
invincibility... I'd bought the Dakota myself with my own money...
-Curt
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:14:43 -0400
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There will always be some risk in any activity, driving, flying, or
just
sitting at home. But the danger on our highways could really be
reduced
substantially IF we required drivers to actually LEARN how to drive,
and not
issue licenses out of cracker jack boxes.
It takes about 2 years in Europe to get a driver's license, and you can
lose
it for a long time and pay heavy fines if you are caught doing
something
stupid.
Here in the USA, in some states we have 16 and 17 year olds (given BMWs
and
Caddy SUVs by indulgent parents) on the road legally after passing a
very
minimal written test, and they may or may not even have to pass a
driving
test. And that test is usually more about parking than knowing how to
safely drive at legal speeds. One has to wonder if the parents realize
that
they are seriously jeopardizing their children's lives by turning them
loose
without proper training and in too much of a car?
That spinning 3/4 ton truck was probably either driven carelessly or by
a
driver that was never taught how to keep from "losing it". Its wrong
to
pre-judge without knowing the facts, but IMO, 9 times out of 10, the
driver
in the skid did something wrong.
Werner
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Hey Larry,
In my classroom I've got 24TB thats, terrabytes. The system I train supports up
to 192TB.
Its amazing, when I bought my first computer in college it had a 40Mb harddrive
which I upgraded to 640Mb and I thought I was hot stuff.
-Curt
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:59:24 -0400
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Thanks Werner --
I'm discovering a huge world of different MP3's and iPod's -
including
some without *any* memory sticks* - gotta watch the amd read the
descriptions carefully!
I've learned that 1 or 2 GBs will be plently of storage for us -
mostly
Debbie and her books-on-tape which I have found takes very little
space.
I still find it amazing to recall when PCs began to arrive in our
corp
tech center - the better ones had 4mb's of HDs followed 6 months later
or so
by 8mb's and then 16mb which meant we were hot stuff. ;-) and eveyone
knows how fast things went from there - doubling every 3-9 months - in
speed
and capacity. When I think back to 4mbs and the need too unload some
programs to make room for others.
We couldn't *comprehend* a Gigabytye then (still can't) and now I
have
500 or more GBs in my desktop. Things have changed a lot -
* - just a few days ago I didn;t know what a memory stick was!
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Hi The Griffin FM adapter for the Ipod was a disappointment purchase; it
transmits a weak output and then picks up the odd static sounds too . The
'tape with a wire' gives a much cleaner sound.
Would like to have a plug in aux lead for the ipod with a discreetly run
cable going to the CD connector plug in the back of the unit which
states, 'Mercedes Benz' on the cassette insert lid , no Becker name
indication .
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>> Those little "cassette tape with a wire" things work really well for
>> that,
>> are dirt cheap, and no mods needed.
>
> That's what I have now. The entire system: Sony discman, cassette
> adapter, car, and home power adapters was $5 at the thrift store,
> and all works. I love surfing the trailing edge!
>
> But the system is awkward with all the cables, the Alpine makes
> a lot of transport noise, and the audio path is easily overdriven
> into distortion. Something a bit more integrated would be a nice
> solution, but probably will never happen.
>
> -- Jim
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