Re:How Cheap Can Electric Vehicles Get?
by JoeAltmaier on Thursday April 28, 2016 @08:52AM
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Its pretty much assumed the rate of accident is proportional to the driving miles. Does that comment mean, because of the limited range, electric vehicles have smaller exposure to accident risk? I guess a bicycle would do even better then.
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What I meant was that discussions of vehicle safety always seem to start with assuming you are in an accident - what if some kinds of vehicles are more or less likely to be in accidents (all other things being equal).
NB I have no idea what the answer is and I've driven everything from large(ish) SUVs to the old style minis.
Small electrical vehicles like that are going to be used mostly in slow moving urban environments and your chances of being killed are massively affected by impact speed so probably quite low.
Re:How Cheap Can Electric Vehicles Get?
by JoeAltmaier on Thursday April 28, 2016 @09:27AM
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Yet traditionally most accidents occur quite close to home. So they will be in many more accidents? Its the severity-probability product S(a)*P(a) that yields the 'suffering coefficient'
Removing long distance trails makes your trip mix biased toward short trips, but doesn't increase the rate of short trips.
Re:How Cheap Can Electric Vehicles Get?
by ZeroGravitas on Friday April 29, 2016 @02:30AM
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It is true that the more people who cycle, the lower the number of transport related deaths and injuries.
Only some of these effects, e.g. less deaths from air pollution, apply to EVs though.