Random Thought for Thursday 2/11/10

Dear Toyota, it is a minimum expectation that pressing on a brake will stop a car. Dear Honda, having an air bag that deteriorates over time such that it sends pieces like shrapnel through a driver/passenger when/if it is activated should be a scene from the next Final Destination movie, or the beginning of a torture-porn device from the next iteration of Saw, or the concluding aha moment no matter which city of CSI you are in -- but it should NEVER be the way someone is "saved" in an accident only to die from the air-bag-bullet wounds. Dear Dodge, you are mine now (just "traded" the 05 Ford Focus for a rental-fleet-sunburst-orange-08-Caliber) and you best treat me well. If so, I'll overlook the fact that you were recently named "worst car of the decade".