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Every kid is different. In highschool I had plenty of friends that would be way more dangerous (to themselves and others) in a fast car than in a speed limited
by Taek 2y ago
Every kid is different. In highschool I had plenty of friends that would be way more dangerous (to themselves and others) in a fast car than in a speed limited car.
Does that make the car safe? Well, in relative terms, yes it does. Probably 100x less likely to cause fatality for specific kids. Not yours maybe, but a lot of them. Parents usually know if that's their kid or not. There are plenty of signs.
- ajross 2y ago> Probably 100x less likely to cause fatality for specific kids. FWIW, that's ridiculous. If a popular car showed a 100x increase in fatalities for some common demographic, that would show up in the data. Sites like HN would be away in "Teen Boy Killer" Tesla articles. It's not. I won't speak to the anecdata, clearly some kids want to drive fast. But speed on regular roads is limited by the roads, not the car. A Corolla or Outback is no less capable of reaching those speeds, its just takes 3-4 seconds longer to do it. That's the kind of delta that, sure, might show up in the data if you look hard (it's a solid hypothesis), but 100x is nonsense.