Joyota

I signed the petition, because I think the law is nothing but another step at attempting to gain more and more control over our lives. I live in Northern, Upstate NY, no where near New York City. I know of many, many people who have hit deer around here. Since my wife and I have been together (18 years), she has hit 2, the 1st of which demolished the front end of the car and windshield. The majority of roads in NY State are rural, yet we suffer at the hands of politicians for the actions of people living and driving in New York City. Why don't they just ban them in NYC like they did handguns?

I am also going to send an email to all the members of the Transportation Comittee, asking that they vote no on this bill. I urge you all to do the same, as well as sign the petition. As others have said, if it passes here, your state will soon follow.

Moderators - I think this thread should be made a Sticky in a few of the more popular forums.

ecchamberlin

Because I am not as smart as I wish I was. I actually read it as if it was in support of the bill. Sorry guys.

I got all spun up about this and it made me even stupider(see what I mean) than normal.
Signing now.

Intrepid

I remember reading a while back in a Motor Trend that they were actually looking into building vehicles with "soft corners" in Europe, to minimize the injury when someone gets hit. There would be a hood height requirement, no brushguards, and these "soft" front ends so that when you hit someone it didn't injure them as much. Damn liberals. Lets ban anything that is not a geo metro with full pillow coverage so that we don't injure anyone or anything.

Jimmeh

As you've probably learned, however, that didn't work at all.

I think the banning of a single thing on a car is rediculous, but I can see the point. I would have to say that in a city environment, brush gaurds aren't really useful.

Intrepid

But what if you live in the city for work, don't have the room to keep a trail rig because you rent, and wheel on the weekends. That is exactly how the president of ne4roc is setup. He has a TJM, is he supposed to take it off everyday?

Jimmeh

As I said, I think it is rediculous, but I can see the point of it in a city type area. I am not saying I agree with it, in fact, I signed the petition against it, I can just see the point of the other side.

Snorkeldepth

I thought it was pretty hilarious when I read that Subaru had designed the nose of the Impreza WRX STI (300 hp) to minimize injury to pedestrians.

Joyota

I can't believe that there are only 65 signatures on the petition. I thought everyone would realize that, if this passes, it sets the precedent for your state to be next! And it will pass if we don't do anything about it!

Tofer

this bill is wee-todd-did.... i signed the petition

Twentally Misted

ITS NEW YORK!What do you really expect!

"No offense to those who reside there!"

midiwall

It's also almost a YEAR OLD

04 Rocko Taco

How about posting the email adresses of the tranportation commitee? so we can all send them PROFESSIONAL letters, no angry stupid threats here boys.

Twentally Misted

did it pass?
since its a year old and all!

04 Rocko Taco

So it is... Nevermind...I'm out. lol.

rdharper

I can see it coming... airbags on the front end for errant jaywalkers. Triggered by proximity detectors and speed calculations. $1000 per vehicle.

But I must admit, the old RR lady would gut a pedestrian in a very ugly fashion.

BigBen

Exactly. This is completely ridiculous

midiwall

As a lesson for the Google challenged...

this got me the email addresses from here.

Then figurin' that those email addresses probably went to a website, I found this: http://assembly.state.ny.us/

But, alas... it looks like the only thing kept online ar bills from the current calendar year. Wandering the 'Net for while pointed me to Westlaw and Lexis (ref: http://www.lexisnexis.com/infopro/zi...sp.aspx?z=1764) but both of those dear folks want MONEY to do a search. This is where I'd launch into a tirade about the Freedom Of Information Act, but that'd be out of character for me so I won't.


There's a start... You're looking for New York Legislature Bill # A.B. 10116

Keggo

I can see where they are coming from in the perspective of wanting airbag friendly bumpers like ARB has to offer. But I also think they need to do more research. I also think that retailers need to tell the 90% of idiot streetqueen owning consumers that get these without ever thinking about airbag compatibility... Hopefully they'll water the bill down to just having several disclaimers from manufacturers saying particular models aren't airbag compatible.