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Old 3rd May 2008, 21:04   #26 (permalink)
aaggoswami
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Default Its all about the genuis behind the wheel.

All the adavnced features will really help, no doubt about that, but then thing again. The basic cause of most road accidents is the person who is behind the wheel, wheather you believe it or not.

Suppose New Honda City ( NHC ) VTEC is bought by a person. He takes it to some twisted roads on the highway. He keeps his speed at 180kmph and attempts sharp right angle turn. No wonder the car will be killed along with the passengers and ofcourse, the genius behind the wheel.

The point is clear. If we had these features like TCS and ESP fitted on each and every car from Nano to the highest end, then the number of accidents will only increase because these features gives a sense of security to the driver and in our country, we have a large number of drivers with inexperience and negligence. So instead of something happening positive, just negative thing will happen.

Someone commented on these being fitted onto trucks ( in India, most of the busses are also trucks ) and busses. Well they already have good braking equipment, but here its the matter of maintainence. The owners of the trucks dont do regular maintainence + overload the trucks to insane levels. This causes the brakes to fail or underperform. This, apart from the genius passed out by professors at RTO, at the wheel of trucks ( busses also ) leads to accidents.
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