Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society”
by sophacles on Monday August 07, 2023 @03:04PM
(#37039197)
Do you have any actual safety numbers? Or are you just going on your gut instinct of "bigger must be better just because"? There was a time when those big SUV vehicles were more likely to kill your family than a mini-van or sedan because the high center of gravity + no rollbar (and other such protection) made it both more likely to roll and more devastating when it did so.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society”
by OGWhales on Monday August 07, 2023 @03:31PM
(#37039709)
The IIHS has stats on this and it does seem that larger vehicles have lower average death rates[1].
In a world of only smaller sized cars, having a larger car would likely be less safe for the reasons you listed. However, with large cars being so popular, it would make sense that being in a smaller car is less safe as you are more likely to be in a collision with a vehicle that has more mass than yours—not to mention you have less room for crumple zones and the larger vehicle would hit you at a higher point on your vehicles, which is known to be more lethal.