From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a3ca574fc2007430 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Ada and Automotive Industry Date: 1996/11/26 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 200955638 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: <55ea3g$m1j@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <3280DA96.15FB@hso.link.com> organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-11-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article Ralph Paul writes: > Sorry, but I have to add my $0.02 (;-). The american customers may > indeed have pressed the 'break' pedal instead of hitting the brakes > (:-). Otherwise they would not have been hurt. I'm not sure what you mean by this. Certainly everyone knows (well, everyone with a clue) that a break system on a car has far more stopping power than the engine has BHP. It's not even close. Stand on the breaks in a auto-front drive car and stand on the throttle and you will simply blow your transmission and/or engine to hell. But you aren't gonna be movin... > In defense of Audi, I have to say that the only country in the world > where customers had problems with the Audi 5000 was the U.S ! I > can't remember anyone in Germany or Europe making a case about the > so called faulty automatic gearbox. Since the engine, driveshaft, > gearboxes ... are all the same, this problem should have shown up on > every Audi 5000. Exactly. As I say, the end reports showed no problem whatsover with the accelerator - only the incompetent "using" it... /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com