by Mike Barry | Apr 2, 2019 | Articles
Manufacturers design vehicles to pass safety tests, not necessarily to pass tests of real life collisions. This distinction could cost you your life. In the real world the cost of a $0.12 part can make a massive difference in profit when a manufacturer builds a...
by Mike Barry | Mar 25, 2019 | News
Did we really believe that surrendering vehicle control to a complex of bits and bytes was going to solve all our motor vehicle safety problems? Just look in the air for a clue as to what’s too come. In grandpa’s days, when the steering wheel did not turn...
by Zygmunt Gorski | Nov 2, 2018 | News
A while ago a visiting acquaintance with a past life in auto racing asked me to step into his high performance sports car for a “short ride around the block”. Just after pulling out of my driveway on a residential speed he accelerated to 110 km/h before he...
by Zygmunt Gorski | Oct 26, 2018 | News
An extreme case of bumper over-ride was published on the OPP’s West Region twitter account today. The front end of a tall pick-up truck was shown on top of the hood and windshield of a small passenger car and the incident reportedly occurred in the area of...
by Zygmunt Gorski | Oct 26, 2018 | News
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has recently broadcast a documentary (The Fifth Estate) and published articles discussing its investigation into an alleged improper decision by Transport Canada to prevent school buses from being equipped with seat-belts....