Trucking in North America vs around the world

Yeah but the Model T will get you to where you're going without taking out a crowd of people and ending up in a ditch.

 

Yep, the rural volunteer fire department close to my house have all yellow trucks.

 

Really?
That's a surprise.
I was expecting the States to be all red.

 

Does the newer Mustang have safety features like traction control?
Do the drivers think they are Mario Andretti and switch them off?
Or is that a option?

 

Nope, not all red. Lots of departments run lime green also.

 

Poor driver skill. Don't know if they let you fully disable that stuff. I can turn off traction/stability on my F150 but it's still on to some degree.

 

From Top Gear i know there are cars which can turn it all off but..............................the car becomes a unguided missile with the driver being more a passenger then the driver.

 

From (old) Top Gear as well, about Corvette:


Because there’s no suspension to absorb the
roll the car just slides, which must be why it has traction control. But this
comes in so viciously and so early that I decided to turn it off and… whoops
eek and wahay, guys and gals, we’re going backwards. It was fun right up to the
moment when I saw the guard rail approaching.

Here’s another secret. Anti-lock brakes
don’t work when you’re going sideways. But it was OK - I ground to a halt with
a good five inches to spare. I was doing that post-trauma bit where you breathe
out and lower your shoulders by five yards when an officer of the law arrived.

The guy knew his cars and pretty quickly,
conversation turned to the Corvette that had nearly killed me.

“You know the big problem with the ‘Vette?”
he said. “It’s the worst ####### car in the whole world.”

He hadn’t actually seen my spin but said he
wouldn’t even think of writing out a ticket for speeding because he knows just
how easy it is to lose control of Detroit’s biggest balls-up.

“####### ‘Vette spins so easy, you can park
one outside a store and when you come out, it’ll be facing the other way,” he
added.

As he climbed back into his cruiser, he gave
me some advice. “Tonight, leave the roof down and the keys in. With luck,
someone’ll steal it.”

 

you forget about L and P