Comments on: Toyota Recalls 3.8 million Vehicles for Faulty Floor Mats http://www.pansypatrol.com/toyota-tot-recall-38-million-vehicles-for-faulty-floor-mats/ News, technical articles, and lessons for those who own, fix, race, modify, or beat their 3000GT or Stealth. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:08:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Noah http://www.pansypatrol.com/toyota-tot-recall-38-million-vehicles-for-faulty-floor-mats/comment-page-1/#comment-21631 Noah Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:36:21 +0000 http://www.pansypatrol.com/?p=878#comment-21631 I think there will always be a class of drivers that overdrives themselves for whatever reason. But as the system currently stands, NO ONE has ANY IDEA WHAYSOEVER about what to do in an emergency. That is just unfathomable to me. I think there will always be a class of drivers that overdrives themselves for whatever reason. But as the system currently stands, NO ONE has ANY IDEA WHAYSOEVER about what to do in an emergency. That is just unfathomable to me.

]]> By: Kai Noeske http://www.pansypatrol.com/toyota-tot-recall-38-million-vehicles-for-faulty-floor-mats/comment-page-1/#comment-20927 Kai Noeske Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:30:23 +0000 http://www.pansypatrol.com/?p=878#comment-20927 Agreed. No matter how idiot-proof you make cars and how low you set the speed limit, there is no way of eliminating emergencies. The best way to avoid accidents is to teach people how to drive and how driving physics works - then they might understand that trucks aren't sports cars for a reason and that rubber on tarmac only brakes so fast, no matter how they praise the gadgets in your brake system in the TV ad. Driver education is non-existent. My US license was $36 at a DMV in CA, completing a few Mickey Mouse questions and driving my car around the block for 20 min. Things were only marginally better back in Germany. True, we needed to complete some 40 - ish darn expensive practice lessons including night and autobahn driving. Yet, no driver emergency training whatsoever either. Some emergency measures and concepts of car mechanics were discussed in the ample classroom program that you attend for months at weeknights; that made things at least a little better. There was still no training of emergency braking / evasive maneuvers / dealing with mechanical failures on a lot full of traffic cones. Only motorcycle students need to complete that, probably because they die so often. Even when I drove ambulances for national service, there was no special driver training. Clueless why that is the same problem around the world. Would people drive more responsibly if they ever had their car drift out of control in a driving skills school? I know I got more cautious after I started autocrossing and driving on the track, simply because I got more aware of the limits and consequences, and how important it is to maintain that bit of emergency space. Agreed. No matter how idiot-proof you make cars and how low you set the speed limit, there is no way of eliminating emergencies. The best way to avoid accidents is to teach people how to drive and how driving physics works - then they might understand that trucks aren’t sports cars for a reason and that rubber on tarmac only brakes so fast, no matter how they praise the gadgets in your brake system in the TV ad.

Driver education is non-existent. My US license was $36 at a DMV in CA, completing a few Mickey Mouse questions and driving my car around the block for 20 min.

Things were only marginally better back in Germany. True, we needed to complete some 40 - ish darn expensive practice lessons including night and autobahn driving. Yet, no driver emergency training whatsoever either. Some emergency measures and concepts of car mechanics were discussed in the ample classroom program that you attend for months at weeknights; that made things at least a little better. There was still no training of emergency braking / evasive maneuvers / dealing with mechanical failures on a lot full of traffic cones. Only motorcycle students need to complete that, probably because they die so often. Even when I drove ambulances for national service, there was no special driver training. Clueless why that is the same problem around the world.

Would people drive more responsibly if they ever had their car drift out of control in a driving skills school? I know I got more cautious after I started autocrossing and driving on the track, simply because I got more aware of the limits and consequences, and how important it is to maintain that bit of emergency space.

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