Another opportunity and a dangerous defect

My trip this afternoon to Boston went quite well - in fact better than I thought it would I met a very nice guy called Joseph at Taylor ITEX who discussed with me my plan and the problems I had encountered along the way. He suggested I contact Lincolnshire Credit Union, an outfit I hadn't come across up to now. They are a community bank of sorts who provide loans to those who would find getting them elsewhere impossible. As I need the loan to advance my career, there's a good chance it will be granted. So this afternoon I completed another application form and will add the various other documents required tomorrow. I should have it in the post in time for the weekend and hopefully they can get to work on my application early next week.
So, another try...

Something in the news today that caught my eye is the Citroen recall which affects the C3 Picasso. Now, I wouldn't normally remark about car recalls - as there have in recent times been so many - but this one really is quite ridiculous. It involves the pedal arrangement and the fact that they have had to be moved to right hand drive configuration. Fine you might think. But not when the gubbins the brake pedal is connected to is left on the passenger side and protected by a thin piece of felt. For when the passenger presses his or her foot down , it connects  with the brake and stops the car. This can happen at any speed and without the knowledge of the passenger or driver. Unbelievable but true.
Now I always had great respect for Citroen. They have a fine history of car design and production but I find it incredible that such a fault could have gone unnoticed. Surely someone must have questioned the fact that the brake pedal gubbins was so accessible from the passenger foot well? Or did they just keep it to themselves for fear of appearing to criticise their management. Maybe they thought no one would notice and genuinely believed that no one would press their foot down in that particular spot? We'll never know.
I know only too well what it's like to lose all power in the fast lane of a motorway - that's bad enough but for the brakes to go on for no reason, well that could be disastrous...