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Today I learned by reading an article on the 11 worst cars sold in the US that despite the fact that the Toyota Yaris gets great gas mileage, car-rating judges hate it. They apparently put a premium on things like side airbags and traction control, so those of us who drive mid-80's BMWs and, now that we think about it, have mentally put traction control in the same category as inertial dampers, are probably as un-American as you can get. It's not all about baseball and apple pie; if you don't fear for your life every second of every day, you just aren't doing it right.

In the spirit of doing it right, you should fear the Yaris because the air quality alone will kill you. And given a choice between being poisoned by a car interior or killed because of a lack of inertial dampers, based on recent experience, I'd take a Darwin Award over poisoning any day of the week.