[s-cars] Moose-Test (NAC)

[tblack]

Moose generally do not stand still when confronted by a car; therefor it is
not recommended to do an avoiding action like swerving as your manic
instructor did. As I understand it the correct procedure is to NOT swerve
and to slam on the brakes harder than you ever did and hope you miss it.
Likewise for any animal confrontation.
Just my$0.02.
Tom Black
----- Original Message -----
From: <jimk at spotgraphicsinc.com>
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Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 3:03 PM
Subject: [s-cars] Moose-Test (NAC)


> On Sunday my wife and I attended the Volvo XC90 ride-and-drive event in
> Alameda, CA.  My wife is pregnant and has convinced herself that a
> medium-size SUV with a 3rd row seat may be the thing to get.  (I'm
> thinking a second S6 Avant, but whatever).  The car (truck) was pretty
> cool and well presented.  The highlight of the thing had to be the
> "Moose-test demonstration".  Volvo is making a pretty big deal about how
> this SUV is pretty hard to roll, what with its gyro, DSC, and all kinds
> of other electronic aids.
>
> Before we drove the thing ourselves my wife and I got in a Volvo with a
> professional driver for the "Moose-Test".  We were in the first gorup to
> go on this ride.  The dude actually dropped the throttle, chirped the
> tires in front of a crowd of people and their kids, got it to 65 mph,
> aimed the car at a life-size Moose dummy and then did the most violent
> accident avoidance maneuver I have ever seen or hope to see again while
> leaving his foot on the gas.  It didn't help that there was another
> Volvo right in front of us and we saw how far the thing tipped and got
> sideways a few seconds before we did the same thing.  The thing was
> amazing though, the driver never took his foot off the gas and you could
> feel the car braking and accelerating and straightening the thing out.
> Allison almost barfed and looked a bit queasy for the next half-hour.
> Man, it was sort of frightening, but definitely an e-ticket ride, the
> worst part was having to anticipate it, unlike an actual emergency
> event.  I would be VERY scared to try that in any of our cars on purpose
> without seeing someone else try it in their car first.  The whole time I
> was wondering if we had actually tipped over, would I be offered a new
> SUV for free?  The funniest part was seeing a dad and three little kids
> do it, the 2 boys came out of the car hollering and very excited, the
> little girl just clung to her daddy and he looked kind of pale.
>
> Jim K.
> 95.5 S6 Avant
> 93 S4
> 90 CQ
> 01 V40
> 90 740TW
> Wanna buy a car?  Let's make a deal.
>
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