Help Me Preserve My Repurtation

[audiSean]

I find this interesting...

http://www.audifans.com/pipermail/quattro/2001-August/032008.html

On 9/6/06, Huw Powell <audi at humanspeakers.com> wrote:
>
> > I recall seeing a diagram and reading a description where the
> > ProConTen system retracted the steering wheel in a frontal collision;
> > I believe it was a wire and pulley system but I can't find anything on
> > it at the moment.
>
> There isn't, and it doesn't.
>
> But, the steering column is different than previous cars, in that
> instead of a solid rod from the breakaway joint to the wheel, there is a
> tube with a ribbed section - which is supposed to crumple under impact
> (of your chest/face on the wheel)
>
> So it might be listed in a description of ProConTen as an upadated
> safety feature, but it isn't part of the automatic system.



-- 
Sean [99 A6 2.8q]
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