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10-04-2010, 11:03 AM

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The US laws are the same!!

It was the 5mph pedestrian bumper law, which started in Europe, AFAIK. If they were implemented in the US, they were after Europe.

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10-04-2010, 11:09 AM

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Benz blame the US as do Bently for their knock down motif.

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10-04-2010, 11:43 AM

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Article from Edmunds:

http://www.edmunds.com/ownership/saf...1/article.html

Germans blamed the US for the failure of its "improving Europe through better standardization" program last century, too.

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10-04-2010, 12:00 PM

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I'm not arguing - I'm just saying. One side of the pond has a pissing contest with the other.

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