Re:How well do cars do in crash tests they're not optimized ...
by rconti on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @03:39PM
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This is also kind of silly; the average person doesn't walk 100 miles (say, a week). Extrapolating relative walking safety from 100ft of darting from your office building, across the street, to your lunch spot, out to 100 miles is not actually the same thing as (say) commuting by foot 5 miles each way for 10 days (where the per-step risk profile is probably a lot lower than the numbers we're extrapolating from).
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Re:How well do cars do in crash tests they're not optimized ...
by kelnos on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @06:19PM
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Yeah, agreed. I think you just need to be making apples-to-apples comparisons based on the type of trip.
If you're talking about trips of no more than a few miles (that don't include hauling too much cargo to carry), you can compare driving with walking. If you're talking about trips of tens or hundreds or thousands of miles, you have to compare driving with flying or taking a train.
I would be interested to see crash/injury/fatality stats for car trips under certain distance thresholds. I wonder if those are tracked anywhere.