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You are spot on. What's really interesting is when companies publish death rate numbers. In everything I've seen, most low-cost car models suffer on safety, ge
by AgloeDreams 6y ago
You are spot on.
What's really interesting is when companies publish death rate numbers.
In everything I've seen, most low-cost car models suffer on safety, generally due to lower cost construction, materials, or cheaper safety/avoidance systems. Volvo obviously has historically been the best at reducing mortality, Tesla is seeming to be beating them but I don't know how many of the numbers actually match reality, that's not clearly published. To better test this it's about time we added a sixth star, for sure.
Left Turns across traffic are generally the highest danger factor, notably for motorcyclists.
Many states in the US are replacing traffic lights with roundabouts and are removing two-lane passing zones.
Oh and SUVs are markedly LESS safe. They are more prone to rollover, less likely to avoid an accident, stop slower, and generally have less safe body structure.
- Marsymars 6y ago> Oh and SUVs are markedly LESS safe. They are more prone to rollover, less likely to avoid an accident, stop slower, and generally have less safe body structure. But they're also heavier, and there exist cheap, heavy SUVs, while cheap cars are generally lighter.
- AgloeDreams 6y agoWeight increases mortality in all accidents. Either by increasing the likelihood of the other driver being injured or by increasing the amount of force impacted on crumple-zones in single car accidents. All modern safety studies have shown this and only recently has any SUV gotten a pure 5 star award. SUVs are less safe than equally priced cars. Also most SUvs cost much more than cars with similar wheelbases.
- Marsymars 6y agoYes, but empirically, lots of people don't care about increasing the likelyhood of the other driver being injured.