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> whenever she brings this topic up and I show her the actual safety ratings for different vehicles, it’s almost as if her brain shuts down The NHTSA safety ra
by sokoloff 3y ago
> whenever she brings this topic up and I show her the actual safety ratings for different vehicles, it’s almost as if her brain shuts down
The NHTSA safety ratings come with the following notation:
"Note: A vehicle’s rating, or Overall Vehicle Score, can be compared with other vehicles of similar size and weight"
She may be, whether knowingly or not, interpreting the data offered more in-line with the guidance provided with the data.
- filoleg 3y agoWhich was kind of my point. I would love if there was some sort of a safety rating that was cross-comparable across all vehicles, not just within the same category/type. I wouldn’t want it to be replacing the per-category one, as that one is way more precise and accurate. But there should be a way to roughly compare the safety of two different cars of different classes. Given the NHTSA rating notation you posted mentioning normalization by size and weight, I wonder if there is a rough function of weight and size that would allow for “denormalizing” scores into raw approximates.