More - Brian O'Neill Quotes

The Toyota RAV4, like a number of other sport utility vehicles, has the spare tire mounted on the tailgate. This design, which is predominately for styling reasons, guarantees excessive damage in a whole range of rear collisions.

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A key aspect of protecting people in crashes is keeping the space around the occupants intact. Then the safety belts and airbags can prevent significant injuries, even in very serious crashes. This is what happened in the Tundra, but not in the F-150.

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 People

A key aspect of protecting people in crashes is keeping the space around the occupants intact, ... Then the safety belts and airbags can prevent significant injuries, even in very serious crashes. This is what happened in the Tundra, but not in the F-150.

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 People

That Exxon took chances with the livelihood of 32,000 people makes the conduct, from a common sense perspective, worse.

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 Common Sense

[One surprise was the performance of the Volvo S80, which suffered about $500 in body damage to the front end during a flat barrier crash.] But in addition, both airbags deployed during the test, ... As a result, there was an additional $4,500 in repair bills.

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 Body

When we tested the old F-150, there was massive collapse of the occupant compartment, and as a result high injury forces were recorded on the driver dummy.

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What stability control prevents is a skid or a slide, and that's what leads to rollovers in SUVs.

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 Control

That had to have been the three more hectic weeks of my life, getting myself ready to go to Iraq.

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 Iraq

But in addition, both airbags deployed during the test. As a result, there was an additional $4,500 in repair bills.

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very close to where a driver would be holding the (steering) wheel.

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