The Danger Belt


Car review: BMW X5
July 30, 2009, 12:29 pm
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This morning, I took a ride to work. It was on my orange ‘07 Trek.

Around the intersection of Kinzie and Clark, a dyslexic retarded girl driving a BMW X5 suddenly veered into my bike lane with no warning. Immediately, my opinion of the car dropped a bit: there are numerous problems that this might indicate. Faulty wiring? Poor signal toggle placement? A confusing user’s manual that doesn’t explain this feature well? Or is it just that turn signals are a luxury extra that doesn’t come standard? Any of them lead down the same road: me unimpressed.

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