> You are much safer being in a car when hit by another car than when not being in a car.
The solution to this problem is not to have more cars, it is to have less (and probably stricter standards on obtaining and maintaining a driver's license).
The solution to this problem is not to have more cars, it is to have less (and probably stricter standards on obtaining and maintaining a driver's license).
Kinetic energy=0.5mv^2
The two variables are orders of magnitude smaller in one scenario, and the function grows quadratically.
My face doesn't have a few feet of crumple zones on it, just a couple of millimeters of skin over bone.
Which is the direction the car size and weight war is going anyway, after all "My family is safer in a massive SUV". Well then. Who cares about everyone else anyway. People outside of vehicles should just stop being poor and get one.