California AG Says He'll Sue Diebold

moby11 points to this Reuters story carried by Yahooo!; it begins "California Attorney General Bill Lockyer said on Tuesday he would sue electronic voting machine maker Diebold Inc. on charges it defrauded the state with false claims about its products."

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Re:And then what?

[cmowire]

Offtopic but.....

Actually, that's the funny part about police cars. They are very careful about which cars are allowed to do pursuit. It's the Crown Vic and one other.

The problem is that, until very recently, a police car *must* be rear wheel drive. To change that requires a lot of retraining of police officers because all of the RWD stunts don't work anymore.

And, of course, all of the newer cars are front wheel drive, so it's awfully hard in general to convince a car company to make a hotrod RWD sedan *just* for the police market.

So it is an effective lawsuit deterrent.

Re:And then what?

[Talez]

In Australia we have a simple solution.

Our flagship cars are still RWD. The Ford Falcon and Holden Commodore are both RWD and are both Australia's biggest selling large sedans.

They come with engines ranging from 219 (3.6L) V6s to 357 V8s. There was a Holden HSV 427 coming to market but it was dropped.

Re:A YRO topic??

[arkanes]

You're being karma-whacked for being stupid, not for being unpopular (is stupidity unpopular?). It's a documented fact that he said it. If you wanted to clarify the issue and perhaps cut down on some of the knee-jerking that sort of statement tends to make, do that instead of making single line, incorrect, trollish posts.

Re:Is this the right way to go about it?

[cmowire]

Dude. The previous 3 messages called. They want their anti-bush party line back. ;)

Re:And then what?

[Trogre]

So it was a win-win situation.

Ford got to keep their pride, and satisfaction of what they could do to people who tick them off.

And California didn't have to look at Ford motor cars for a while.

Re:And then what?

[Pig Hogger]

Cars aren't built to take massive damage from behind because it almost never happens (aside from police cars parked on the side of the highway). Besides, there is a trunk between the passengers and rear bumper to provide a crumple zone. This isn't a flaw, it's a design choice.

So this explains why the Pinto exploded: it had no trunk...

Re:And then what?

[red floyd]

I think it's the Chevy Celebrity.

However, for a while, the CHP (CA Highway patrol) bought and certfied Mustangs, so as to be able to keep up with some of the higher powered cars on the freeways.