Groundbreaking study - big cars are safer in crashes with smaller cars

[Burgermeister]

From the water is wet department, drivers of heavy pickup trucks survive more crashes than drivers of compact cars. Or, as put in this ridiculous study, "As the weight of your car increases, the risk of killing other increases dramatically." See that? Now you are killing people by driving a pickup truck. We have another crisis that will require some sort of federal intervention. "Car bloat". Look for ideas being floated around additional taxes on bigger cars or some other costly regulation. So tiresome.

 

[Rogue AI]

They needed a study for that? This nation is doomed.

 

[1srelluc]

WTF?

Did Capt. Obvious do the "study"?

 

[jwoodie]

I remember seeing a fake NHTSA crash video between a full size Chevy and a compact car. The "head on" collision was carefully constructed so that the Chevy took the brunt of the damage on the driver's side while the compact car's damage was spread across its entire front end, thus "proving" that the smaller car was safer.

 

[Obiwan]

How about not allowing vehicles made of plastic and recycled beer cans on the road, since they tend to be the loser in just about any accident.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

WTF?

Did Capt. Obvious do the "study"?

He rejected the offer because it was too obvious.

 

[Yarddog]

how about just get a lawnmower attachment for some of these
and together we can RE_Imagine the auto industry.

 

[whitehall]

Common sense isn't it? Why is it "groundbreaking"?

 

[leftwinger]

I used to have a 66 VW bug, even one with the roof cut out with a torch. Gas tank up front. Lap belts if any. Imagine that head on into a Delta 88 driven by a drunken Chicano.

 

[Rogue AI]

Probably some Millennial 'researcher' found their parent's 5th math notebook. A tome of infinite wisdom is the age of manufactured stupidity.

 

[leftwinger]

I have phobia of a big SUV full of Dem lesbians singing Mellisa Ethridge and rear ending me at 75MPH when the freeway halts but they miss noticing the sea of brakelights.

 

[leftwinger]

You know what’s next, dont you? GOVT to Ban big mean cars. Everyone in 15MPH golf carts or Smart cars. All the same size and weight. Like East German 1960s’ cars.

 

[Resnic]

No shit.

I had a 67 Ford falcon as a kid and I could wreck that and bend the fender and bust the headlight. I get in the same wreck in my 2021 car and half the car is destroyed. Granted my falcon wasn't big but it was all metal, not 3/4 plastic.

The tank my uncle drove when I was a kid was a boat, you could probably get hit by a pickup doing 65 and still drive home after. Course it got like 12 miles to the gallon.

 

[Marener]

Remember, this is supposedly the pro-life party casually disregarding the deaths of thousands of people, including children that they can’t see over the enormous hoods of their stupid trucks.

 

[Dragonlady]

No shit.

I had a 67 Ford falcon as a kid and I could wreck that and bend the fender and bust the headlight. I get in the same wreck in my 2021 car and half the car is destroyed. Granted my falcon wasn't big but it was all metal, not 3/4 plastic.

The tank my uncle drove when I was a kid was a boat, you could probably get hit by a pickup doing 65 and still drive home after. Course it got like 12 miles to the gallon.

We had a 1965 Pontiac Custom Sport convertible, when we bought our first house. 327, posi-traction, metalic blue with white leather interior. What a fucking tank. Yeah, it got 12 miles to the gallon. We were living in the country at the time so the posi got us home when the roads were bad, which was often.

 

[Votto]

Speaking of heavy cars, EV's are heavier because of the damned huge battery, as they eat up tires because of it too boot

But the government does not care about that, do they.

Funny that.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Speaking of heavy cars, EV's are heavier because of the damned huge battery, as they eat up tires because of it too boot

But the government does not care about that, do they.

Funny that.

Not just EVs, modern cars are HEAVY. My Challenger was 4600lbs. (In perspective, HEAVIER than a Crown Victoria.)

 

[airplanemechanic]

Kind of interesting considering truck driving is the 5th most dangerous occupation in the United States. With the weight of our vehicles, if weight alone protected you, we should all be alive forever.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Kind of interesting considering truck driving is the 5th most dangerous occupation in the United States. With the weight of our vehicles, if weight alone protected you, we should all be alive forever.

More exposure. Truck drivers do huge miles-100K/year is common.

 

[percysunshine]

Speaking of heavy cars, EV's are heavier because of the damned huge battery, as they eat up tires because of it too boot

But the government does not care about that, do they.

Funny that.

EV statistics are all skewed. They burn up their occupants before they can get in an accident.