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Or you do the math and realize that with a modern, safe automobile, your chance of dying in an accident with a pickup is so small that upgrading your own vehicl
by braythwayt 7y ago
Or you do the math and realize that with a modern, safe automobile, your chance of dying in an accident with a pickup is so small that upgrading your own vehicle to a pickup is a rounding error.
To be clear, I agree that humans being humans, we do love to get into escalating arms races.
- abawany 7y agoI've seen at least 3 reports in my area where a head-on collision with an impaired driver (in the truck) usually ended up killing or seriously injuring the passengers in this 'modern, safe automobile'. Some examples: * https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/drunk-driver-who-killed-three-in-2017-crash-sentenced-to-18-years/ https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/drunk-driver-who-kill... * https://www.kxan.com/traffic/two-children-killed-in-cedar-park-crash-on-w-whitestone-blvd/ https://www.kxan.com/traffic/two-children-killed-in-cedar-pa... * https://www.kxan.com/top-stories/two-from-austin-dead-after-crash-south-of-dallas-ft-worth/ https://www.kxan.com/top-stories/two-from-austin-dead-after-... * https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/married-only-minutes-texas-newlyweds-killed-in-crash/ https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/married-only-minutes-texas-n...