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>Mass is the greatest, most significant safety feature you can get in an automobile. "Safety for me, but not for thee"?
by noqc 3y ago
>Mass is the greatest, most significant safety feature you can get in an automobile.
"Safety for me, but not for thee"?
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- zelon88 3y agoThey'll sell you one too. But you probably care about silly things like gas mileage or legroom or number of speakers or some other unimportant metric. I can't set other people's priorities for them. All I know is that nobody is gonna remember that time you got 53mpg on a road trip. But a ride in a cool car is not something that you forget.
- noqc 3y agoYou misunderstand. I want the government to prevent you from driving a car that is more likely to kill me in an accident. We are enemies here. Not natural enemies, of course, because banning large cars makes you safer, even if you drive a large car, since otherwise everyone must drive large cars for safety, and two large cars colliding is more dangerous.
- lotsoweiners 3y agoSo if I was parent in a family of 6-7 I just tell little Timmy that he has to stay home while the rest of us go to the movies? Yeah, that’ll fly.
- noqc 3y agoI'm not going to wade into details of the position when it's so clear from context what is meant by "large cars". Your comment is in bad faith, I think.
- I_Am_Nous 3y agoA minivan or a maxivan may be a better option for such a family. Who says they have to be driving a Ford Mountain to get 6-7 people around?
- BobaFloutist 3y agoIf you're a parent in a family of 6-7, you should probably have two cars.
- toast0 3y ago> All I know is that nobody is gonna remember that time you got 53mpg on a road trip. But a ride in a cool car is not something that you forget. What? I remember hitting 60ish mpg in my then-GF's '84 Honda Civic driving to college with the a/c off. And in my 2011 Jetta Sportwagen TDI on any trip at highway speeds; sure it put out extra NOx, but it also got extra fuel efficiency. Big cars and mileage don't go together. But big cars and legroom often do, also big cars and speakers; I think my minivan has more speakers than my home theater, and the minivan gets better mileage than the home theater too.
- glitchcrab 3y ago'cool car' is incredibly subjective. In my case, I live in the UK and drive a BMW M3 - from where I stand the American obsession with trucks is ridiculous. Give me a driver's car any day, not some daft tank of a car where the driving experience is so woolly that the steering wheel may or may not actually be connected to the wheels.