[geeks] Mac definitions

[Robert J Toegel]

> Yeah, you're right, but most front-end collisions tend to be offset, due
> to how we drive down the road, those types of accidents are going to be
> caused by someone drifting over the line, and be offset to the driver's
> side.
>
> Personally, most of the accidents I've been in have been me being rear
> ended while waiting at stop lights.
>
> I don't know how parents these days are, but I remember when I was
> getting my drivers license back in the 80s, parents would talk about how
> they wanted to get their kid some big car from the 60s or the 70s, so
> that they would be better protected by all that steel should there be a
> crash.  Maybe a 76 Buick would have stood up better to an 85 Tercel, but
> these days, you're probably going to do better in the Mini Cooper should
> it have a similar collision with the 76 Buick.
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>

But the example was "misplaced" since the original comment was about living in
a crap house surrounding 2000 year old buildings.  To make a proper analogy,
I'd like to see the condition of a 2009 car in fifty years!

Bob