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 Crash: The Limits of Car Safety - Nicholas Faith
Newest Review: ... you’re inside another car or not. It's worse if you’re not, of course, because pedestrians take sixth or ... more  ... seventh place in the priorities of city-planners and architects. And car-designers: “One gesture that motor manufacturers could make an effort to reduce pedestrian injury would be to make the front of cars more pedestrian-friendly. The most dangerous vehicles are those with high ground clearance and ornaments, especially bull-bars - designed to show that the owner is used to herding cattle or elephants. These should be forbidden (or, at least, their owners assumed to be guilty if they ever hit a pedestrian).”...more |
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Crash - The Limits of Car Safety [1998]
Rating Suitable for 12 years and over, Last Update 27.11.2009 05:48
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Crash: The Limits of Car Safety (A ChannelFour Book)
Pages: 224, Hardcover, Boxtree Ltd Last Update 27.11.2009 05:48
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Crash: The Limits of Car Safety - Nicholas Faith: Writhing Along in My Automobile (856 words)
by - written on 28/08/00 (Very useful, 68 readings)
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It's got the same name as J.G. Ballard's book and David Cronenberg's now notorious film of J.G. Ballard's book, but it doesn't attract as much attention, presumably because a fiction about people deriving sexual pleasure from deaths and injuries in cars is much more important than the reality of deaths and injuries in cars. Rather in the way the fact that Princess Di died was much more important than why she died - which was because she was travelling in a grossly overpowered machine in a crowded city. Lots more examples of the psychological paradoxes and lunacies of our love affair with the car can be produced, and this book produces them: ... Read the complete review
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