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Re:2022 Ford F-150 Lightning by taneq on Friday May 21, 2021 @06:09PM (#27240593)
Not if saving 5k pedestrians kills 10k highway drivers. (Numbers made up, I’m just saying you have to consider them.)
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Re:2022 Ford F-150 Lightning by Chico75 on Friday May 21, 2021 @06:42PM (#27240874)
Why would design changes that improve visiblity to avoid killing pedestrians end up killing more highway drivers?
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Re:2022 Ford F-150 Lightning by ttyprintk on Friday May 21, 2021 @10:00PM (#27242550)
From other threads, one might conclude that animal accidents in rural areas inspire some apprehension about wedge-profiled designs. In USA, 1m out of the 6m auto accidents each year involve one car and one animal, with a human death rate of 200 per year.
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