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From : bob m
Q: your tinfoil hat is too tight. drugs booze speed teens jerks macho men bikers other fools these substances and people types -- in various combinations -- kill 44000 of u.s. citizens a year. its been like this for decades. but nothing substantive is ever done to reduce this carnage. because nobody cares. are you part of the problem --------- a deadly story we keep missing by peter j. woolley the washington post wednesday december 27 2006; a19 the non-story of 2006 was also the non-story of 2005. it is a non-story every year going back decades. yet the number of people who die in car crashes in the united states is staggering even if it is absent from the agenda of most public officials and largely ignored by the public. when all is said and done and the ball begins to drop on new years eve 44000 people give or take several hundred will have died in auto accidents this year. to put that number in perspective consider that o at the 2006 casualty rate of 800 soldiers per year the united states would have to be in iraq for more than 50 years to equal just one year of automobile deaths back home. o in any five-year period the total number of traffic deaths in the united states equals or exceeds the number of people who died in the horrific south asian tsunami in december 2004. u.s. traffic deaths amount to the equivalent of two tsunamis every 10 years. o according to the national safety council your chance of dying in an automobile crash is one in 84 over your lifetime. but your chances of winning the mega millions lottery are just one in 175 million. o if you laid out side by side 8-by-10 photos of all those killed in crashes this year the pictures would stretch more than five miles. o if you made a yearbook containing the photos of those killed this year putting 12 photos on each page it would have 3500 pages. if you wanted to limit your traffic-death yearbook to a manageable 400 pages youd either have to squeeze more than 100 photos onto each page or issue an eight-volume set. can you hear me now automobile deaths are the leading cause of death for children for teenagers and in fact for all people from age 3 to 33. yet this annual tragedy is not a cause celebre. opinion leaders largely ignore the ubiquitous massacre. no marches walkathons commemorative stamps or fundraising drives are organized. it is not brought up in the state of the union address. it is rarely the subject of public affairs shows. statistics arent updated daily in major papers or broadcasts. gruesome crashes are reported just one at a time each as if it might never happen again. little attention is paid to the aftermath safety measures taken or not taken the workings or non-workings of the justice system. these avoidable deaths as well as more than 2 million nonfatal dismemberments disfigurements and other injuries that go along with them have become part of the fabric of everyday life in the united states. elected officeholders naturally take the path of least resistance. they are well aware that significantly reducing deaths on the roads requires radical solutions in the form of regulation investment and enforcement. roads need to be made safer for example by extending guardrails and medians to every mile of busy highways. speeding and aggressive driving need to be much more rigorously controlled. trucks need to be separated from automobiles wherever possible. and cars need to be built slower and stronger. but every solution is readily opposed by someone manufacturers industrial unions truckers consumers taxpayers -- though all are potential victims themselves. the public is not to blame. it is hemmed in on every side by mind-numbing advertising and shouted stories of the moment. apparently no medium is willing to bludgeon people -- as they need to be -- with statistics and trends on the dangers facing them every time they set out in their automobiles. only if there is a public outcry will this situation get the attention due it. only when people fully realize the absurd and avoidable costs of the dangers that stalk them on the road -- and then demand governmental action in the form of forceful intervention and strict regulation -- will this become the story of the year as it should be. the writer is a professor of political science at fairleigh dickinson university and executive director of publicmind a public opinion research group there. http//www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/26/ar2006122600775.html ----- .
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From : bob m
azwiley1 wrote its not illegal to have it up front it is illegal for the driver to watch it. slight difference but as we know a cop could be an ass any time they wanted too. the ass is the guy watching video while driving. not the cop that slaps him down. jam um...check your local laws. im under the impression that it is illegal to have video in front where the driver can see it. -- ------------------------------------------ laszlo almasi ----cool toys formerly carolina watercraft works ----mack daddy trailers ----ice angels got a dodge megacab with built in gps display. has video in back for passengers was wondering if anyone knows a way to get video on the gps display in front. i know the garmin street pilot plays video and wonder if i can get video to work in the dodge thanks .
From : snoman
a week or 2 ago my 2006 dodge ram 2500 megacab with the cummins 5.9l and 6 speed manual started to cough and lose power/rpms and lots of white smoke or smoke looking substance like water vapor came out. it had an unknown percentage of bio-diesel in it -- small repeated fillups of various percents of bio with intermittentent straight dino diesel -- truck is 4 months old but only had 600-700 miles on it. this coughing and loss of power lasted a few minutes and then it seemed to work fine for a while. then it happened again. i added 10 gallons of dino diesel and was able to drive home 4 miles without incident. next day went out and had similar episodes. when it drives fine there is no smoke. when it starts to cough and lag and power loss occurs lots of white smoke comes out. a ton of it. i drained the water filter a few times thinking that maybe there was a high water content in the fuel. i also added some power service additive that is supposed to displace water. i was able to drive 50-70 miles without incident when it started again tonight. it would idle fine but when i pushed the accelerator it was like there was a regulator on it. it would rev up a little and then just totally lose power. i added another 7 or so gallons of dino tonight and some more power service additive. we are now up close to 800 miles on the odometer. i went and got some howes lubricator diesel treat which claims to eliminate water and added some of that. after that i was able to drive 5 or 6 miles when it started to happen again but the symptoms are now a lot less severe. i dont see as much smoke or any when it power losses and it does not lose as much power though it is still very noticable. it is like a governor is on the engine. it will idle and i can slowly increase the throttle and then between 1800 and 2500 not always at the same point the power loss happens and the rpms will drop. i was able to keep it going at up to 2000 rpm without loss sometimes but then get above that and it happens. any ideas i started to think that maybe the fuel filter was getting clogged and it was allowing enough fuel through for lower power use but as the throttle is increased it cannot get enough fuel to the engine. but everything is new and there should not be all sorts of deposits to come loose and clog the filter... change the fuel filter! while your at it buy a couple of them sounds like you will be needing them. id stop putting anything else in the tank other than diesel. actually id be inclined to drain the tank. i also would not go to the dealer unless you are darn sure you are covered due to the bio you added. roy thanks chad .
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From : snoman
its not illegal to have it up front it is illegal for the driver to watch it. slight difference but as we know a cop could be an ass any time they wanted too. um...check your local laws. im under the impression that it is illegal to have video in front where the driver can see it. -- ------------------------------------------ laszlo almasi ----cool toys formerly carolina watercraft works ----mack daddy trailers ----ice angels got a dodge megacab with built in gps display. has video in back for passengers was wondering if anyone knows a way to get video on the gps display in front. i know the garmin street pilot plays video and wonder if i can get video to work in the dodge thanks .
From : bryan
perryneheum@hotmail.com wrote the writer is a professor of political science at fairleigh dickinson university and executive director of publicmind a public opinion research group there. no... the writer is an indoctrinator at fairly dickwad u and executive dick at..... and the op is a hack! the only thing worse than a liar is an asshole that twists statistics to his agenda road fatalities in the us fell from 52627 in 1970 to 42116 yearly while in the same period road fatalities in germany fell from 21000 to 6949 per year. ... sounds bad huh... even though theres probably been a 3 or 4x increase in vehicle miles traveled... still the death rate is far lower than it was 40 years ago. and its only where miles traveled/driven is ignored that the us looks bad. heres the facts deaths per 100 million vehicle-miles 1 sweden 1.2 2 united kingdom 1.4 3 finland 1.5 4 united states 1.7 5 netherlands 1.8 6 denmark 2.0 9 germany 2.5 -- yeh im a krusty old geezer putting up with my smartass is the price you pay..deal with it! the numbers are more impressive considering how much the us population has increased over the past 40 years. .