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If it doesn’t meet safety standard that protect the driver of the vehicle, that’s one thing. But unsafe cars are sometimes unsafe for the other car.
by shermantanktop 2y ago
If it doesn’t meet safety standard that protect the driver of the vehicle, that’s one thing. But unsafe cars are sometimes unsafe for the other car.
- __turbobrew__ 2y agoWhere I live you are much more likely to die getting hit by a logging truck than being harmed by a small utility truck without collision avoidance sensors. Hell I almost died in a head on collision with a semi truck if I didn’t swerve out of the way. Commercial trucking is where safety should be emphasized, not people who just want a small utility vehicle to do jobs around town.
- shermantanktop 2y agoAside from anecdotes, is there data on that? I suspect it’s a small minority of people that encounter a logging truck in a given year. I’m in the PNW and you don’t see logging trucks barreling through big cities. I found this: https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/safety/data-and-statistics/large-truck-and-bus-crash-facts-2021 https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/safety/data-and-statistics/large-t... 5k fatalities.
- __turbobrew__ 2y agohttps://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/transportation/driving-and-cycling/road-safety-rules-and-consequences/be-truck-aware#stats https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/transportation/driving-an... > In an average year in B.C., large trucks are involved in less than one percent of all crashes – but they’re involved in nearly 20 percent of fatal crashes. If you exclude motorcycle fatalities (which is usually only the motorcycle rider is seriously hurt, and that is a known risk they take) the numbers get even worse for commercial trucking.
- atoav 2y agoUnlikely since there are way less of them.