{"id":2200,"date":"2003-07-17T12:36:32","date_gmt":"2003-07-17T15:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=516"},"modified":"2003-07-17T12:36:32","modified_gmt":"2003-07-17T15:36:32","slug":"re-on-cars-new-geek-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/07\/17\/re-on-cars-new-geek-toy\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: On cars: new geek toy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Mercedes launched the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercedes-benz.com\/e\/cars\/a-class\/default.htm\">A-Class<\/a> in 1997, one of the first journalists who did a test-drive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elchfans.de\/index2.php?link=geschichte\">rolled the car over<\/a> while performing the &#8220;moose test&#8221; &#8211; a quick avoidance maneuver at moderate speed. Initially this was a public relations disaster, and in Germany the car is still called &#8220;the moose&#8221;:<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/eu\/Mercedes3.jpg\" border=\"0\"  \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nTo their credit, Mercedes quickly re-engineered all models to include the ESP (Electronic Stability Program), originally meant to be a top-level option, which solved the roll-over problem and also included other safety goodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Mercedes launched the A-Class in 1997, one of the first journalists who did a test-drive rolled the car over while performing the &#8220;moose test&#8221; &#8211; a quick avoidance maneuver at moderate speed. Initially this was a public relations disaster, and in Germany the car is still called &#8220;the moose&#8221;: To their credit, Mercedes quickly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-zu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}