Re:China’s $4k electric cars tap huge market Tesla can’t reach
by ekianjo on Saturday March 13, 2021 @02:17PM
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The US has much larger cars so this drives fatalities up in accidents too.
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Re:China’s $4k electric cars tap huge market Tesla can’t reach
by jefftk on Saturday March 13, 2021 @02:37PM
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Really? An accident between two large cars is generally safer than one between two small cars.
Re:China’s $4k electric cars tap huge market Tesla can’t reach
by bobthepanda on Saturday March 13, 2021 @05:49PM
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It may make collision between cars safer, but it makes collision with non-cars deadlier for the people outside the car.
The general trend for pedestrian and cycling deaths is up in the US, because increasingly popular SUVs and crossovers strike a person higher on the body, and also are more likely to push a person under the car towards the wheels or forward where they’ll be run over again, rather than over the hood.
https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/new-study-suggests-todays-s...
Re:China’s $4k electric cars tap huge market Tesla can’t reach
by jefftk on Saturday March 13, 2021 @06:19PM
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I don't disagree with you, and I'm not sure why you think I do?
Re:China’s $4k electric cars tap huge market Tesla can’t reach
by ekianjo on Monday March 15, 2021 @05:58PM
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Err in frontal collisions, maybe? But in pretty much every other case, having something with more kinetic energy will product more harm - it's physics after all. You don't see cyclists killing each others' a lot after all.