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The bigger the vehicle, the less fatalities overall for passengers/drivers of that vehicle in car accidents in the US. This has lots of compounded factors, but
by Supermancho 5y ago
The bigger the vehicle, the less fatalities overall for passengers/drivers of that vehicle in car accidents in the US. This has lots of compounded factors, but the increase in size is easily a survival factor against other large vehicles. I'll take the trade for the pedestrian death increase, which is a fraction of total car-related fatalities. I also feel that the number of pedestrians has increased due to various factors, which has led to a predictable increase in accidents and fatalities.
This study feels like a lot of hand waving on a slow news cycle, when those numbers aren't alarming in the slightest.
- gbrown 5y ago[citation needed]
- Supermancho 5y agoThere are multiple resources, which you would have found with less keystrokes. https://www.iihs.org/ratings/driver-death-rates-by-make-and-model https://www.iihs.org/ratings/driver-death-rates-by-make-and-... Play with the dropdowns. Vehicle safety is pretty serious business with millions of injuries per year. I'm not citing everything that's casually available.
- jwmhjwmh 5y agoThe article mentions that car safety standards do not take pedestrian safety into account. Surely these standards should be based on a complete picture, even if the revised standards do not end up incentivizing smaller cars.