Word: zyburt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Grand Cherokee wends its lazy way along the gently curving road, cruising at 25 m.p.h. through rural Michigan's autumnal landscape of gold-and-orange-dappled trees. I'm reclining in the rear of the car with Jeff Zyburt, a Chrysler project manager. As we chat, the Jeep changes lanes from smooth asphalt to rough cobblestone, which sets us passengers bouncing around in the back seat...
...solutions for most of these problems. Honda, for example, claims its automated driving system can safely reduce the gap between vehicles traveling 35 m.p.h. to 6 ft. while retaining a 3-ft. margin of safety. But margins of safety are in the eye of the beholder, as Chrysler's Zyburt and I discover about halfway around one of the track's cobblestone lanes. "This is where it gets rough on our test drivers," he warns me, just as, on cue, the Jeep slams to a halt, throwing us painfully against our seat belts. "Oops," Zyburt says sheepishly. He has accidentally...
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