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HOLD THE FRIES Steering-wheel dining is as American as, well, apple pie a la road. One out of 10 restaurant meals and 1 out of 5 fast-food meals are now eaten in a car. The dashboard favorite: a hamburger for lunch...
...more, RVs aren't the difficult-to-maneuver, hideous-to-look-at, cramped behemoths they once were. O.K., most are still resolutely unstylish, but virtually all have power steering, power brakes and automatic transmission. Some carry a rearview TV camera on the roof with a monitor on the dashboard to make parking a cinch. Fleetwood Enterprises' Bounder, the best-selling motor home in America, has a computer stand and prewiring for a satellite dish as standard features. There's more home in them too, with options for queen-size beds, glass showers, bathtubs, washer-dryers, TVs, VCRs, solar panels...
...think of 40-mile-an-hour winds and zero-degree weather as a big deal," says JOHN FAHNER-VIHTELIC. That's probably because he has endured far worse. In 1977 he lay for 16 days without food, pinned above the dashboard of his station wagon after it plunged 150 ft. off an embankment in Washington State. He escaped with his life (partly by throwing his shirt into a nearby stream and sucking the moisture out of it), but not all of his limbs. The loss of his left leg hasn't slowed the 48-year-old down, though...
What's more, much of the equipment needed to make this Jetsons vision real, from cruise control to automatic suspension and antilock brakes, from vehicle-detection radar to dashboard navigation systems, already resides in industry catalogs. GM, for instance, is offering limited radar-based obstacle-detection systems in school buses. GM and Ford now equip their high-end cars with devices that call for emergency help after a crash. And some 4% of all new vehicles are expected to come equipped with onboard navigation systems that can tell drivers where they are by reading an onboard electronic...
Konik hit the dashboard and suffered whiplash and a stiff neck, sources said. Storey had a severely swelled forehead...