China’s Giant Market for Really Tiny Cars

Re:China’s Giant Market for Really Tiny Cars by dsfyu404ed on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @01:28PM (#18068436)

>It doesn't matter how fast you are going, it matters how fast the other guy is going! The crash safety of modern cars is not an accident. It takes a lot of money to do the engineering, buy the proper materials, and put it together correctly.

I think the safety complaint is irrelevant when the alternative is a bike or moped.

It does also very much matter how fast you're going because a huge fraction of crashes only involve one vehicle.

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Re:China’s Giant Market for Really Tiny Cars by syntaxing on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @02:04PM (#18068855)

I think it concerning because people probably think its more safe than it actually is. This is definitely no safer than a bike or moped but the outer car housing gives a much stronger false sense of safety for the user.

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Re:China’s Giant Market for Really Tiny Cars by romwell on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @09:42PM (#18072022)

>This is definitely no safer than a bike or moped

Any tri- or quadricycle is most definitely safer than a bike or a moped. You can't fall off it when it's not moving, for starters.

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Re:China’s Giant Market for Really Tiny Cars by Doxin on Thursday September 27, 2018 @09:19AM (#18084133)

On the other hand you can, for example, get trapped inside it while it is on fire.

There's tradeoffs here and it's not at all obvious which of the two options is safer.

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