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>both drive the biggest trucks that they could find because they saw that people in large trucks tended to be fare better in accidents. People don't generally
by s_dev 4y ago
>both drive the biggest trucks that they could find because they saw that people in large trucks tended to be fare better in accidents.
People don't generally consider that the bigger cars are more likely to be in accidents in the first place even if they come out of it better. Ireland would have much smaller cars than the US but much better traffic record.
So bigger == safer -- isn't giving a nuanced story or understanding. For sure though bigger == less fuel efficient.
- pneumatic1 4y agoMaybe more likely to be in an accident because the driver feels safer and so is more careless. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Tullock#Tullock's_spike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Tullock#Tullock's_spike
- bena 4y agoThat's funny, but demonstrably untrue. The steering shaft used to be pretty much that and it caused a lot of fatalities. So they stopped building cars like that.
- adamsmith143 4y agoAre we confusing correlation with causation? Is there actually an indication that larger cars are more prone to accidents or are their drivers inherently more aggressive and accident prone?