GM financial woes have begun

bigdogger wrote:
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Apparently to you, power steering, power brakes and antilock brakes do not provide any benefit in handling a vehicle, take them away with no warning and there will be no difference in how the car handles in an emergency. And now it is OK for airbags to not deploy if there is an impact on a vehicle in a location other than the front? Good to know since many front airbag deployments occur when a vehicle makes secondary impact after being hit elsewhere, exactly like it apparently failed to deploy in this collision. I always had heard the exact opposite was true and that the airbag system had multiple redundant controls to prevent exactly that failure scenario.............snip

1) She did not lose POWER brakes unless she stomped on the pedal several times.
2) The steering would have been fine (at high speed power is not needed, especially in a smaller car).
3) Granted, the ABS would not work with the engine off.

So one out of three ain't bad.

C'mon, she blew a stop sign at 58mph and got side-swiped. How was that the car's fault?

As for air bags deploying, these cars had front air bags only the sensors for which are in the FRONT bumper. They do not deploy (and would't do any good anyway) in a side impact. That's why newer cars have side (and roll-over) airbags as well.

Look, we can argue this 'til the cows come home - the courts are the place where it will get resolved.

And BTW GM has said they will not use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying out in injury/fatality cases. They MAY use it to fend off people who want compensation because they think there cars have lost value. AFAIC those owners should make sure they get new switches and move on.
Two totally different scenarios.

This ends my discussion.