On Tue, 5 Sep 95 14:37:58 CDT mbushore@icaen.uiowa.edu wrote:
This may or may not be helpful in your project: > > > What I am wondering/needing is some feelings on how individual people > make decisions to compensate for the obvious design comprimises that > some types of vehicles have. For instance, has anyone ever noticed > that a VW bus has a short nose? How do you compensate for this when you > drive? Or do you? I'm sure you didn't mean to imply a vans' short nose is a design compromise, but rather a given for the body style. This brought to mind a conversation I had with a VW salesman toward the end of the Vanagon run. He told me the VW Vanagon was among the ten best cars/small trucks in terms of surviving a head on crash. He even gave me a reprint that gave the gory details. As I thought about this I concluded, based on my experiences, the van driver automatically increases his/her awareness and is more likely to avoid dangerous driving situations due to , in part, his/her proximity to other traffic. In other words the "short nose" contributes to enhanceing the safety record of the van.
> For anyone interested, Volkswagens get mentioned more times than > any other car make when we discuss product liability in class.... Even more than the sport utility/ four wheel drive types? Fascinating. Bill Duff 69 single cab 82 Vanagon
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