RE: UI

[Peter Henriksen <peterhe@microsoft.com>]

Actually, we're benefitting from it. Cheaper used cars...
- peter, peterhe@microsoft.com, issaquah, wa, usa
  91 200qw
  94 acura legend gs
  80 mazda 626


>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Shaun Mullen [SMTP:smullen@philly.infi.net]
>Sent:	Wednesday, October 02, 1996 9:53 AM
>To:	ScottyCBoy@aol.com
>Cc:	Quattro@coimbra.ans.net
>Subject:	Re: UI
>
>ScottyCBoy@aol.com wrote:
>> 
>> That UI stuff was a load of crap anyway.  In almost every instance where UI
>> was involved, the driver was new to the vehicle.  In test after test
>>drivers
>> were found to have been stepping on the gas instead of the brake to stop
>>the
>> car.  The UI fiasco was merly a media sham to hurt Audi sales.  Look at the
>> GM saddle tank incidents.  That was a DESIGN FLAW.  I have never heard of a
>> reference to this when reading about a new GMC/Chevy truck.  But almost
>>every
>> new Audi article I read has a reference to UI.  The media sure is biased..
>> 
>> Scott
>
>Yes, the media sure is biased.  But AoA and corporate Audi share the
>blame for an imperious we're-smarter-than-those-dumb-American-drivers
>culture that turned a public relations PROBLEM into a public relations
>DISASTER because of its arrogance.  Audi devotees like ourselves are
>still paying for that, too.