-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Ethier <pethier@isd.net>
To: Cliff Loh <cliff_loh@infoserve.net>; Autox List <Autox@autox.team.net>
Date: Saturday, September 23, 2000 11:50 PM
Subject: Re: Tech inspection, what to do....
>>In any given autocross tech inspection, you usually look for "safe and
>>positive" throttle return. Well that's fine for most cars but what
>>constitutes "safe and positive" for new car with fly-by-wire
>>throttles?
>
>
>Nothing. Flunk the suckers, just like factory restraint systems which do
>not incorporate a lap belt.
>
>No, I'm kidding. Don't flame me.
>
>Seriously, though, I have a hard time believing that fly-by-wire throttles
>are necessary, a real advance, or even a very good idea.
I'd much rather flunk a car for "restraint" systems that restrain nothing
until the collision has already begun to happen. Don'tcha hate
lowest-common-denominator safety systems that actually do not work for
people like us who consider a *proper* safety system an aid to good driving?
But <sigh> I suppose in the current climate, a car's stock belts must be
considered adequate even though for autocross they are as effective as a gun
loaded with blanks.
--Rocky
>
>Phil Ethier Saint Paul Minnesota USA
>1970 Lotus Europa, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Suburban, 1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L
>LOON, MAC pethier@isd.net http://www.mnautox.com/
>"It makes a nice noise when it goes faster"
>- 4-year-old Adam, upon seeing a bitmap of Grandma Susie's TR4.
>
>
>
|