I am not sure what the designers at Honda were smoking when they designed
the Civic 2000. This model has a clearance that is lower than typical
parking bars. So every time you pull up a parking spot or getting out of a
drive way that is uneven with the road, you'd almost always manage to
scrape off the bottom front part of your car!

What the f*ck is wrong with those morons at Honda????

"Tae Oh" <taeoh (AT) hondasucks (DOT) com> wrote


How much load is in the car when this happens? You got Fat Albert in there??
I always driven Civics no problem, small car, hang back a bit.

The problem is the improperly set speed limits. You can't fix that problem
by changing where speedometers are installed. If the powers that be truly
cared about traffic safety, both speed limits and speedometers would be
banned. Drivers should be DRIVING, not thinking about how the vehicle's
velocity relates to a specific number. If you are going too fast for
conditions, you shouldn't need to confirm that by looking at a speedometer.
Also, a speedometer can give a poorly trained driver a false sense of
security. That is, you can be driving way too fast for conditions and still
be driving slower than the speed limit. -Dave

"Ted B." <noway (AT) nohow (DOT) not.ever> wrote in
news:427a1f97$0$86256$892e7fe2 (AT) authen (DOT) white.readfreenews.net:



Clapclapclapclapclap.

Obviously, you can forget about ever getting a job with any government by
thinking like that. And the cops would hate you for removing a major source
of revenue from them.




It can give ANY driver problems, even trained ones. Can you imagine the
increase in accidents if race car drivers had speedometers? "Gee, I hit
this corner at 63 the last lap, maybe I can shave a bit off my time if I
make sure I hit it at 65...or 67...or 69..."




Yup. My own province records such things as "speed too fast", which the
cops and insurance companies love to (deliberately) misinterpret as
"speeding" faster than the posted limit. The statistic actually means speed
too fast FOR CONDITIONS, with no mention of the driver's speed relative to
the posted limit. If you slide off the road at 25 and the limit is 35, it
gets put down as "speed too fast".





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"Michael Pardee" <michaeltnull (AT) cybertrails (DOT) com> wrote

On the contrary. For the average American car, you COULD remove the entire
dashboard, and it wouldn't make that much difference to a well-trained
driver. But then a well-trained driver would want certain guages that are
missing from the average American car to begin with. As far as driving
goes, a speedometer is useless. (if you don't know your speed is proper
without consulting a guage, you really shouldn't be driving) At least an
analog oil pressure guage would provide useful information. Now try to find
one in any vehicle on the road in the U.S. Good luck on that. -Dave