It would have been in GM's best interest to jump on this ship while it was still at port. It will be a bit of a mess now I'd say.
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Originally Posted by abaucom21
How does the average driver know what to do when a faulty tire blows at high speed or a loss of power steering and power brakes. You only have an instant to react. Have you every tried to stop a car when power steering and or power brakes fail or had a high speed tire blow out. I have experienced all the above and let me clue you in even the most experienced driver might not be able to avoid a crash.
Also, none of this would be an issue if people would just learn how drive a vehicle... has to be one of the most ill informed comments I have seen posted on Camaro5 in the last two months.
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My girlfriend drives a '98 Mercury Grand Marquis without power steering. Every day. Has been doing it for over a year. We haven't bothered to mess with it because at anymore more than a crawl a car will turn just fine regardless of power assist.
We drove a '94 Corvette 20 hours, round trip, with no power brakes. No drama.
I do agree with high speed blowouts, though. That can be hairy.
As for ignition switches? I can understand some people not knowing how to immediately react to the ignition shutting off. Some people just don't have that automatic response in their mind. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if some woman with a key chain full of crap was driving though a curve, ignition shuts off to the wheel lock, and upon the exit of the turn the wheel is locked and she plows off into the woods.
It's not smart to have 10 tons of junk hanging out of your ignition switch, but it's not hard to engineer an ignition switch to stand your key vertical when in 'run'.
All being said, hopefully GM get's through it, learns something, and we'll get to see something else on the news.
I for one have nothing on my Camaro key but the dealership pendant.