Skeptic Bob
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Thankfully cell phones are pretty prevalent. Also, there was a manual release.
Why not just move the lock from the locked position to the unlocked position? Didn't Chevy put that in the Corvette?
A plain old screwdriver would work, i'm sure.
Based on what are you sure? Have you ever tried, or are you 72 yrs old?
Jimmy, is that you?
You believe this?? Why didn't he break a window?
One less Perry voter.
One less Perry voter.
That's cool, when the family sues Chevy and a couple union workers in Michigan lose their jobs to make up for it, I think that about evens it up
On what grounds do you think the lawsuit has merit?
A guy died because he couldn't exit the vehicle.
Poor guy was 72 years old and trapped in his car, instead of asking why didn't a seventy-two year old Army vet didn't have the strength to break out of his car window, why didn't he have a phone to call 911 or a friend? Or more importantly, why didn't anyone come to help him out?
Why couldn't he exit the vehicle?
Read the OP
You may want to read the whole thread. Chevy put a way for you to get both into and out of the car if and when the battery dies. Hard to blame Chevy for someone not bothering to look into how to do that. Especially when it is a lever by the door with a rather obvious red marking of a door.
From a major regional news outlet at about the 3-minute mark, you can hear what the man who tried to rescue Mr. Rogers, a Mr. Ponsegrau, has to say about all the "armchair geniuses" who posted at KHOU's website about how they could have saved themselves. Also from this link:
Mike Flash, owner of Corvette Specialties, told 12News that the 2007 Corvette has a manual release located on the floorboard by the driver's seat. But Rogers did not know that.
Ponsegrau says Rogers was not the only one unaware of that. He says he, along with first responders, also struggled finding away to get Rogers o out of the car.
Ponsegrau says eventually firefighters had to break the window.
He said, "There's is a way to get in, but it's not common knowledge."
Hernandez says police believe her dad made a valiant effort to escape, and possibly died while looking through the car's manual. Texas man, dog die after being trapped in Corvette
So now a car company has to explain every single feature on a car before they sell it. Putting it in the owners manual is not enough. What about cars that have levers to open the fuel door in the same place. Do I need someone to show me how to do that and if and I can put fuel in my car so it runs out of gas on the highway and I get killed can my family sue the car company than to.Doesn't matter if they put in a way to do it if nobody knows it exists. The question is did Chevy make a reasonable effort to educate people about this and would a reasonable person be expected to know how to do it.
I'm going to say probably not.
I think a lawsuit would be successful, and I'm sure there are plenty of Texas lawyers contacting the family as we speak soliciting their services.
I'm all for that. Any way we can bring money to Texas and take it away from the unions up north is fine by me... especially when it's the direct result of negligence and greed that led to the death of a Texas war veteran.
|Exactly, which is why Chevy's ass is getting sued.
No reasonable person would know that door release was there.
It's remarkable isn't it? Personal responsibility is only to be mentioned when it can be used to justify or mock poor people or minorities. When it applies to Texans who drive sports cars though, then everything becomes someone else' fault. These conservatives are such hypocrites.Exactly, which is why Chevy's ass is getting sued.
No reasonable person would know that door release was there.
Some are some are not. Exactly like many liberals.It's remarkable isn't it? Personal responsibility is only to be mentioned when it can be used to justify or mock poor people or minorities. When it applies to Texans who drive sports cars though, then everything becomes someone else' fault. These conservatives are such hypocrites.
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It is spelled out in the owners manual. It is not the car companies fault if you choose to not read it before you drive the car. Really not big on the whole personal responsibility thing are you.
99% of a car manual is lawyer crap like "never drive thru water over 3" deep" even though everybody does just that. No one wastes their time reading the owners manual.
So now a car company has to explain every single feature on a car before they sell it. Putting it in the owners manual is not enough. What about cars that have levers to open the fuel door in the same place. Do I need someone to show me how to do that and if and I can put fuel in my car so it runs out of gas on the highway and I get killed can my family sue the car company than to.
I thought people from Texas conservatives from Texas were supposed to be all about personal responsibility. How come folks don't need to have the personal responsibility to understand how to operate the piece of equipment that they are driving.
If someone can successfully sue Chevy over this it is just one more perfect example of Americans refusing to take responsibly for themselves and always looking to blame others for their own mistakes. Something conservatives are supposed to be all for.
And what greed lead to this. I would really like to see the explanation for that.
I really think your partisanship is getting in you way here.
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