On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:25:27AM -0500, Deepak Jain mooed:
As long as the car _moves_ under its own power across the highway, its essentially not the car manufacturers' (or the consumers') immediate concern.
That's really not true. Before car companies sell cars, they pass (lots of) safety certification tests. Before owners drive cars legally, they pass a safety and emissions test. Sure, the highway folks clean up after the occasional tire blowout, but there's been a lot of work put in to make sure that the engines aren't going to drop out on a regular basis. If the Internet was a highway, it would be covered in burned-out engines. -Dave -- work: dga@lcs.mit.edu me: dga@pobox.com MIT Laboratory for Computer Science http://www.angio.net/ I do not accept unsolicited commercial email. Do not spam me.