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The Castlegar Sun

y, August 17, 1994

ON THE MOVE

BC families go on vacation courtesy of GM

Vancouver, August 11,

test drive. It will be the

1994 - Five British Columbi
families - will spend a seven-
day summer vacation taking
part in a 60,000 kil

test-drive
ever staged in Canada.

They are part of a group of
30 Canadian families, from

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Lumina Discover Canada
Tour. Families will depart
from six Canadian cities -
Vancouver, Calgary, Win-
nipeg, Toronto, Montreal and

celebrate the tradition of
families taking to the open
road together to see some of
the most diverse and beauti-
fal i Canada has

Halifax - on August 20,
returning one week later on
August 27.

“The purpose of the Dis-
cover Canada Tour is to test
drive the all new, Canadian-
built 1995 Chevrolet Lumi-

to offer,” said Martin
Walsh, General Director of
Advertising for General
Motors of Canada.

Some of the destinations
the British Columbia fami-
lies will visit include the

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toria, the artworks of down-
town Chemainus on Vancou-
ver Island, Pacific Rim Park
and Long Beach dn the west
coast of Vancouver Island,
Minter Gardens in the Fraser
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asa video camera to record

their experiences.

In return, each family has
agreed to cover the distance
of at least 2,000 km and,
record their travels on video-

tape. Although each family‘

is free to plan their own
itinerary, they will be guided
by two predetermined desti-
nations that will remain a
mystery to them until August
19, the eve of their departure.

Participating families get
to keep the video cameras
and the family producing
the best and most original
video will win a vacation to
Disney World, courtesy of
GM of Canada and Delta
Hotels and Resorts.

Small car safety
improves

(NC)—The significant
imp: ins bil,
safety technology in recent
years has not been well

understood by the general

public. Most improvements,

have been incorporated in a
gradual, evolutionary manner
into the basic design of vehi-
cles, especially smaller cars.

Structural improvements
became obvious only in actual
crash situations. Many other
smaller improvements may
not stand out on their own
since many are directed at
crash avoidance. These incre-
mental improvements become
more impressive when viewed
in a collective sense.

General Motors safety
engineers explain aspects of
small car safety and the
dynamics involved:

What happens when a
small car is involved in a
crash with a larger vehicle?
Natural laws of physics say
that if two similar objects of
differing mass collide, the
lighter object will experience
a greater change in velocity
than the heavier object.

For example, if a 2,000-
kilogram car should crash
head-on into a 1,000-kilo-
gram car, both travelling at
40 kin/h, the heavier car will
experience the equivalent of a

In addition, the smaller car
has less mass_and smaller size
than a heavier car, making it
less capable of absorbing the
greater forces of impact.

Aside from structure and
weight, many other factors
are relevant to the safety of a
lighter car such as the envi-
ronment in which it’s driven,
including highways design,
use of restraint systems,
crash avoidance capability,
driver age, health and experi-
ence, and whether driving
the lighter car results in bet-
ter driving behaviour.

The GM engineers point out
that using a safety belt ina
-size Car can i
= occupants’ level of protec-
tion up to that of unbelted

occupants in a full-size car.

To minimize your risk in a
lighter car, keep in mind that
highway statistics clearly
show that most crashes occur
as a result of human error or
aggressive driving
behaviour. Therefore, exer-
cise care to drive defensively
at all times.

Poor environmental condi-
tions are the next largest cause
of crashes. Don’t “overdrive”
a road’s design or any condi-
tions caused by bad weather.
Last are crashes resulting from

20-km/h impact into a fixed
barrier, but the lighter car the
equivalent of 60 km/h impact.

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Wednesday, August 17, 1994

The Castlegar Sun

ON THE
MOVE

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often, especially if you own
an older vehicle.

‘The General Motors safety

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der der safety belts ‘help reduce
the likelihood of driver death
by about 42 percent. If an
airbag is added to supple-
ment the belts, the reduction
increases up to 47 percent.

All GM products — large
or small, car, van or truck —
benefit from GM’s safety

cost car in Canada (Chevro-
let Cavalier).

GM has developed tools
for safety advancement used
throughout the world and
has contributed more to the
scientific literature on auto-
motive safety than all other
vehicle manufacturers in the
world combined.

The use of unique comput-
er modelling, biomechanical
studies, field crash research
and the world’s most exten-
sive program of product test-

r h and devel

programs, including having
anti-lock brakes as standard
equipment on the lowest-

ing have made General
Motors the world leader in
automotive safety research.

Tires help pave

the way
summer

Now that the warm weath-
er is here, it’s time to have a
look at your car’s tires.

Tires? Well, whether its
taking off for a family vaca-
tion, escaping to a lake for
the weekend or simply cruis-
ing. with the windows open,
driving is invariably an
important part of the Canadi-
an summer. Not surprisingly,
Canadians log more kilome-
tres and have more collisions
in July and August than any
other time of the year. Yet
we’re more inclined to think
about tune-ups, brake checks
and tire maintenance in the
fall than we are in the spring.
It’s a strategy worth re-
thinking, particularly when it
comes to tires.

Following a long winter,
your tires may not be in the

driving
Bridgestone/Firestone
Canada. “Those five are air
pressure, tread depth, prop-
er tire rotation, balancing
and alignment.”

According to Ballantyne,
maintaining correct air
pressure makes tires last
longer and requires only
that the driver consult the
owner’s manual and make
regular checks.

Tread depth can be
checked by examining the
tire’s “wear bars,” which
are small raised platforms
of rubber in the tread
grooves (usually 5/32 or
7/32 of a centimetre). If the
tread is close to the same
height as the wear bars, it’s
time for a new tire.

Rotation, balancing and
alignment are best left to the

best shape. Rep d freez-
ing and thawing can cause
air loss, while spinning the
tires on ice and the build-up
of moisture may have
resulted in “fatigue” in the
tire wall.

The good news, it’s easy to
check for trouble.

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