No shit? How do I get a research job like that?
Bigger cars cause more damage in crashes. How are these cars consumer cars again?
Bro, it hauls groceries so well for me. I thought I ran over a squirrel the other day, turns out it was a 99 Civic. Ooopsies.
OK, now do fatal accidents including pedestrian deaths and see how that goes. The size of car you drive doesnt serve as an indication of whether you’re a bad driver, but the damage that can be caused ought to exclude some cars from the road.
The article is literally all about pedestrian deaths.
This just in: scientists discovered momentum.
We continue to make cars larger to make them safer for the people inside of them, but this is a race to the bottom that makes everyone less safe overall
When they modelled the outcome of crashes that only differed in vehicle size, they found that every 100kg of vehicle weight increased fatality odds by 6 per cent, and for every 10cm of vehicle height, the odds of a pedestrian death rose by 11 per cent.
All the more reason to get one of these bad boys.
https://www.motor1.com/news/615702/2023-rezvani-vengence-suv-pepper-spray/
Of course armored body panels and bulletproof glass are on the list, but how about armor for the passengers? Vests and helmets are available, along with gas masks, magnetic deadbolts for the doors, run-flat tires, sirens, ultra-bright lights, a thermal night vision system, and we aren’t joking about shooting pepper spray. It’s also an option, and if you need to find cover for a quick escape, it even has a smoke screen feature.
meh. in the 90s south africa had cars that shot flames from the sides to ‘discourage’ carjacking.
Also swingblades to take out legs
lol I missed that. like, scissors?
Funniest shit is that in the picture, the smallest car is a fucking SUV
At this point my Jeep is a compact car compared to the whales on the road, sure it maybe taller but I need the square trunk area and height for my back and work.
I feel like it’s more of a crossover but yeah that’s basically the smallest car they sell nowadays, at least here in the USA.
The smallest car you can get in Victoria is a Kia Picanto or a Suzuki Ignis. We’re talking under 900kg. They’re usually driven by the very young or very old.
I get around Melbourne in an old Ignis. The government frames us like we’re the unsafe ones. The road blimps are getting out of hand.
Fun story: I annoyed a guy in a Silverado last month by (gasp) getting in front of it so I could see. He pulls up next to me and starts yelling at my roof. I couldn’t even see the dickhead’s face.
I drive a Swift and a motorbike in Melbourne. I’m convinced 2 out of three drivers in Melbourne have zero ability to recognise they are part of an ecosystem and that the road doesn’t uniquely belong to them.
And tell me about being blamed for our own safety. Can’t even go for a decent ride any more because I’ve seen potholes that can swallow a man. And now they have.
The potholes were definitely not caused by motorcycles and Swifts. I can’t believe the hypocricy of people who buy a 3 tonne rolling whale and complain about the prevalence of potholes.
Well crossover is an SUV, the most popular type of “stupid size car” in Europe at least
I always thought of them as a distinct category but maybe you’re right I don’t actually know.
I had to double-check, but the difference seems to be that traditionally SUV has a frame separate from the body construction, and crossover has the body form frame
But also, that definition is not always followed and people just call the stupidest size cars SUVs, and the less-stupid-but-still-stupid-size crossover
But for example, by that definition this lada niva is a crossover, not an SUV
Yeah I also looked it up and it doesn’t really seem like there’s a consensus on whether they count as SUVs. So I guess we’re both kinda right.
Either way fuck cars that are bigger than they need to be. That’s the ultimate point.
Fuck cars in general, but especially the stupid sized ones
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Also the one with a lower, clearly sloped hood and the biggest windows, not only relative to it’s size but in total. Yes size matters, but those stupid modern city tanks also bring a lot of additional “features” making them more dangerous for pedestrians alongside their ridiculous size.
There should be a word for things like this where my first reaction is, “Well, duh! What are you, some kind of idjit to need a study to tell you that?” But then I think about it for a second and I’m glad they studied it because we should be making policy decisions based on data.
Now if we could just start actually doing that…
I think the word is ‘doy’ pronounced condescendingly.
“Local physicists, engineers overheard saying, ‘well, duh.’”
Are you saying there’s some kind of relationship between mass and force? Huh. Weird.
And smoking isn’t good for your health! Yeah, I know. Shocking.
Like with smoking, there is a lot of effort going on to deny the obvious though and a lot of people are in denial.
A lot of money behind that denial too.
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It’s true, size matters, my hot wheels never killed anyone! (I know of)
