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- From: apm@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Andrew Merritt)
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 11:58:54 GMT
- Subject: Re: Is there hope (for car drivers) ?
- Message-ID: <47900003@hpopd.pwd.hp.com>
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- References: <1992Dec23.115139.6745@osf.org>
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- I wrote:
- >|> What makes you think the car drivers are not also breathing in the fumes?
- david@postman.gr.osf.org (David George) replies:
- >Well for one thing the tendency for cars now to be fitted with filtered
- >air intakes. This practise has even 'filtered' down to the Opel (GM) Astra
- >and features in their advertising. So now the drivers are even more
- >insulated from the pollution they alone cause !
-
- I hadn't realised this feature was now fitted on such cars. This strikes me
- as an unfortunate development; the cars should be changed to stop emitting
- the fumes, not to stop picking them up. How efficient are the filters,
- though? I don't think you can filter out CO, for example.
-
- Andrew
-