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Really? An accident between two large cars is generally safer than one between two small cars.
by jefftk 6y ago
Really? An accident between two large cars is generally safer than one between two small cars.
- jefftk 6y agoSource: https://www.iihs.org/topics/vehicle-size-and-weight https://www.iihs.org/topics/vehicle-size-and-weight
- bobthepanda 6y agoIt may make collision between cars safer, but it makes collision with non-cars deadlier for the people outside the car. The general trend for pedestrian and cycling deaths is up in the US, because increasingly popular SUVs and crossovers strike a person higher on the body, and also are more likely to push a person under the car towards the wheels or forward where they’ll be run over again, rather than over the hood. https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/new-study-suggests-todays-suvs-are-more-lethal-to-pedestrians-than-cars https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/new-study-suggests-todays-s...
- jefftk 6y agoI don't disagree with you, and I'm not sure why you think I do?
- ekianjo 6y agoErr in frontal collisions, maybe? But in pretty much every other case, having something with more kinetic energy will product more harm - it's physics after all. You don't see cyclists killing each others' a lot after all.