Insurance issue/Cobra charter group. Your vote is NEEDED!! Input very important!

[petek]

SAVA ... self assembled vehicle association. Even sounds appropriate when you say it: "save a"

One area particularly dear to my heart is the car's electrics. While I recognize that electrics are like magic to many, in reality there are no truly complex circuits in any of our cars ... and yes, I'm including the fuel injection computer. Some simple guidelines about wire size, fuse size, switch current carring capability and the like could go a L_O_N_G way towards safety!

On the other hand... how much safety would we want to include? For example, the turn signal assembly on the GM column is double-redundant. There are individual switch contacts for front and rear turn signals and yet another set of contacts for the hazard lights. When I re-wired my Montage I just used a single set of contacts for the left and right signals and then a single contact for the hazard lights ... a reduction of over 50%.

What did I give up? Redundancy. Undoubtably GM (and I'll assume every other manufacturer) knows something about the safety required to ensure the signals work and used redundant switch contacts. Is my Montage any less safe? Nope, as long as the turn signal contacts continue to work.