Comment 2798

By Ted Mitchell (registered) | Posted December 29, 2006 at 10:16:03

My wife and I have long observed the "V factor" which is the observation that vehicles starting with the letter V tend to have bad drivers at the wheel. I think this is truer for Volkswagen than Volvo however. VW's are so unreasonably hyped by marketers that the average person actually believes they have an advantage in performance (without attemting to verify this) and drive accordingly. No such silliness existed in Germany the last time I was there.

Older Volvo's were built to be safer than the average car. This is no longer true for the last decade or so, as others have caught up. e.g. browse here: http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/ncap/Index2.cfm

As for comments from "a reader" four posts above, if a pedestrian weighed 2 tonnes and walked erratically at 70 km/hr on a Hamilton street, he would be posing a serious risk to others on the road and should be stopped accordingly. Discussing "rights infringement" without consideration of risk to others is irrelevant.

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