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| Apr 29, 2016 at 9:16 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | Now, if there were (for the sake of argument) only one or two higher-speed collisions per year in the US, then that would be a low enough rate that we'd say, "it really doesn't matter how your car performs in higher-speed collisions, road safety in practice is all about <12mph". But "less than 50% of injuries" is too high an upper bound to consider the scenario negligible. | |
| Apr 29, 2016 at 9:14 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | Wait, what? "Safe" is not a precise term, but it doesn't seem right to completely ignore a whole class of bad stuff that can happen to you (injuries at >12mph) just because it's less than 50% of a larger class of bad stuff that can happen to you (all collision injuries). When we talk about how safe a vehicle is, among the things we're talking about are higher-speed collisions. The fact that parking-lot collisions (or, for that matter, banging your head on the doorframe getting out) are more common doesn't mean that's the only kind of accident that informs the "safety" of the car. | |
| Apr 29, 2016 at 0:18 | comment | added | Maja Piechotka | (Beside I think I prefer to have a few bruses every year then that one time when I'll die). | |
| Apr 29, 2016 at 0:17 | comment | added | Maja Piechotka | Note that if crash occures at 12 MPH it doesn't mean that cars were travelling at 12 MPH. I was once in a car crash (and I wasn't a driver) but while the initial speed difference was probably closer to 40 MPH the accident happened at 5 MPH. Why? Because rear driver noticed the car and started breaking beforehand. In such circumstances the quality of breaking systems and other things which improved makes difference between "accident" and "no accident". At highier speeds, slower reaction time etc. it may be a difference between "lethal injury" and "injury". | |
| Apr 26, 2016 at 16:39 | history | answered | TMN | CC BY-SA 3.0 |