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I'd be curious to see whether it takes crash speeds into account. Isn't it wrong to name a car dangerous purely based on the number of people died in it? I'd ar

• sorbus 15y ago
  Perhaps like looking at the number of driver deaths per million registered vehicles? ... oh. Wait. That's on the graph. And is the axis on which the "most dangerous car" is furthest out on.
  • hyperbovine 15y ago
    You're letting your smartassitude get in the way of things. By demographics, gp is talking about things like age, gender, region, etc. If Nissan 350Z owners skew heavily towards irresponsible, twentysomething males pulling 140 on the nearest freeway, then it's not really fair to equate crash statistics (even if normalized) with a characteristic inherent to the vehicle itself. I could build a car of of paper mache and duct tape, but if I only sell it to grandmothers who drive to the store once a month it would barely even show up on this graph. All of which is to stay: the sole purpose of an infographic is to mask nuances in complex data. Draw conclusions from them at your own peril.
• metageek 15y ago
  It's pretty hard to measure the speed of a crash after the fact. By the time any third party notices the scene, the speed is generally 0.
  • hvs 15y ago
    Skid marks and debris can actually provide a pretty accurate picture of the speed of the collision.