How Will They Manage?

I took the afternoon off from work so I could ride the bicycle home before the last rain of the season hit. A good thing, too, as it's coming down pretty good this afternoon, and traffic according to the radio is hogtied. Hogtied. This is always the case around SACTOWN when it rains -- many of our drivers become the next "victims" of "unfortunate" accidents, as these accidents apparently have no correlation to their judicious use of excessive speed.

While Geely in China is ramping up to become the maker of the least expensive car in the world, surpassing the Tata Nano, all we can think about here in the U.S. is how these cars don't meet our stringent, mandatory, and absolutely essential safety standards.

How will the Chinese manage without anti-lock brakes, adaptive headlights, computer controlled stability, integrated child booster seats, supplemental restraint systems, dynamic brake control, lane departure warning systems, backup cameras, traction control, crash resistant door pillars, all wheel drive, blind-spot detection systems, proactive roll avoidance systems, adaptive cruise control, tire-pressure monitoring (too lazy to check it yourself, slick?), side impact air-bags, and the CHIMSL light?

Perhaps we could manage without all this either if 1) we didn't build car dependent living arrangements that require the use our cars for every facet of living like buying a pack of gum or getting a key made and 2) if we didn't drive them like complete fucking idiots.

How will the Chinese manage, huh? How?