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Originally Posted by TxBandit911
What you just said had nothing to do with my statement...loss of engine power should not result in instant death, period.
Your engine can shut off for a thousand different reasons with no notice at all. If you crash because the engine shut off, then you're just an idiot. Not like I've been driving for 20+ years or anything...this has happened to me before, engine stopped running. Hell, why weren't cars flying off the road at random when vehicles didnt even come with power steering. Now if the steering wheel locked, that's another story, that would suck.
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it has plenty to do with it. when the ion (which the Malibu was based on) was being tested, the engineers (not drunk teen on dirt roads) noticed a problem and recommended the ignition be redesigned. GM drug their feet on it, and the car went to market with the defective ignition. an ignition the engineers deemed defective. GM then decided that it would be too expensive to correct. do you really think the justice department is investigating GM and will probably seek criminal charges because people hung too much weight on the keys?
again, this has nothing to do with people not knowing how to drive their car as you seem to think, or hanging stuff off your keys as others seem to think. say this out loud, and it may sink in. GM engineers noticed a flaw in the ignition, alerted GM, but GM let the cars be sold with it, and failed to recall them when people started dieing.