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A Time For Standards (02 Apr 2006)
One automobile executive has already told me of one such incident. His company provides him with a different vehicle to drive every month. After several months of experience with different cars that had backup warning systems that signaled the distance remaining to objects behind the car, he was given a car which lacked the warning device. Oops. One family onth. After several months of experience with different cars that had backup warning systems that signaled the distance remaining to objects behind the car, he was given a car which lacked the warning device. Oops. One family member had come to rely upon the warning, and in its absence, backed up through the rear of the garage
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