You may remember that a little while ago I posed the questions, do vehicle safety ratings and Wikipedia mix? How long would a vehicles safety rating remain on its Wikipedia page? Well, now I have the answers to both those question, no, and 7 days.
Seven days ago I posted both Used Car Safety Ratings [...]
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Posted in Safety on Jul 24th, 2007
The 2007 Used Car Safety Ratings were officially released today and show that drivers or passengers are 26 times more likely to be killed or seriously injured in the worst rated car, the Daihatsu Hi-Jet (1982-1990), than in the best one, the VW Passat (1998-2005).
The survey is the largest of its kind in the [...]
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I’ve often wondered about the information presented on Wikipedia. Who writes it? Who edits it? Who decides what stays on the page and what gets taken down? What is the criteria for something being removed? In my opinion, all of these questions take on greater importance when you are referring to an entry relating to [...]
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Posted in Safety on Jul 10th, 2007
Australia’s peak motoring organisation, the Australian Automobile Association (AAA), has publicly slammed some of the worlds leading car manufacturers for withholding life saving vehicle safety technologies from the Australian public.
AAA Executive Director Mike Harris said the vital safety features, which were standard in vehicles manufactured and sold overseas, were sometimes not included in the same [...]
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Posted in Safety on Jul 2nd, 2007
If you’ve ever had any doubts about the ability of stability control to help keep you’re car on track, then you really need to check out this video of stability control in action on the ice.
Here’s an overview of how the whole system works from BMW.
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Effective from July 1, Dynamic Stability Control (DSC) ( also known as Electric Stability Control or Electronic Stability Program) is now fitted as standard equipment on all automatic petrol and XR Falcon sedans, and across the entire Territory range.
DSC has been added to the standard specification of all automatic transmission-equipped petrol Falcon XT, Futura and [...]
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Posted in Safety on Jun 28th, 2007
Read an interesting post over at Australian Car Advice regarding ANCAP crash test results. Well what interested me most was not actually the post itself, which was basically a reproduction of the June 2007 results, rather some of the comments. Specifically, this comment caught my attention (you can read the full comment here, otherwise I’ve [...]
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Interesting article in GoAuto News this morning detailing the failure of Holden’s VE Commodore.
GM Holden has defended the safety of its new VE Commodore following the four-star crash test rating it received last week from the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP), whose test results show the billion dollar VE recorded a lower frontal offset [...]
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