Green Cars Kill
From USA Today:
Americans are buying more small cars to help the environment and cut fuel costs, and that might kill them.
As a group, occupants of small cars are more likely to die in crashes than those in bigger, heavier vehicles are, according to data from the government, the insurance industry and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
The newest small vehicles, of course, meet today’s strict safety standards and can be laden with the latest safety hardware, such as stability control and side air bags. They are safer than ever. And differing designs mean some small cars are safer than average. But even the safest are governed by the laws of physics, which rule in favor of bigger, heavier vehicles, even in single-vehicle crashes.
If the switch to smaller, lighter vehicles continues to grow, the result could be anywhere from dozens to thousands of traffic deaths that would have been avoided in bigger vehicles, according to fatality records and safety forecasters. The number depends on how many bigger, heavier vehicles ultimately are replaced by smaller, lighter cars.
“People… need to know that if they decide to buy a much smaller vehicle, they are putting themselves and their families at risk,” says Adrian Lund, president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. IIHS, supported by auto insurance companies, follows traffic deaths closely.
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Cars don’t kill people - dumb people that don’t know how to drive kill people.
August 20th, 2007 at 2:52 pmEven Democrats can’t repeal the laws of physics, although they try and convince people they can, and some actually buy it.
August 20th, 2007 at 3:19 pmI say let ‘em drive ‘em…. dying that way will save them from the horror of drowning on the streets of NYC when the ice caps melt or dying from heat stroke.
August 20th, 2007 at 3:54 pmyeah i would like to see a prius go head on with my chevy truck..might seem more like a bug hitting my front bumper
August 20th, 2007 at 4:16 pmspeaking of this, i saw a duelly pickup with a big camper trailer on its side in the middle of the highway last night. It was crazy. No Prius’ got crushed though…
August 20th, 2007 at 4:18 pmYeah the Greens have been doing a great job of fucking this country right up. Can’t build any more refineries, can’t drill in Anwar, got to make 57 different varieties of fuel to meet their air quality standards, can’t make better foam insulation, cause the idiot greens outlawed freon…can’t free ourselves of foreign oil, can’t kill the bugs…the idiot greens outlawed DDT…..
Oh yeah, those Green cars are a big help. The greens put more worth on bugs, snails, and fish than the lives of people. They care more about wolves, than people’s cattle.
Their PETA buddies kill more animals than the shelters do. They are as much a threat to this country’s security as are the other leftist tree-huggers in the Dhminocratic party…or CNN, Daily Kos, and the rest of the leftist bug fuckers.
Fuck the greens…fuck their cars…
August 20th, 2007 at 4:45 pmAround here where I live(Central Cal) its the drunk illegal aliens that run stop signs and drive in the wrong lane that kill people. Safest vehicle around here is a full size pickup with a lift kit.
August 20th, 2007 at 8:26 pmWell Bill that IS one of the “jobs not enough Americans and LEGAL immigrants will do”…. that and shooting teenagers in the head.
August 20th, 2007 at 9:28 pmI can sum this up in two words
August 20th, 2007 at 11:15 pm“Fewer Hippies”
The person with the most mass wins.. I’ve been in two head on collisions by people that where doing something other then driving.. In both cases I out weighed them by 2000 pounds and came through without a scratch.
The same couldn’t be said for the people on the other end.
Don’t be the fly on the windshield..
The person with the most mass win.. Everywhere in the universe. The universe doesn’t care your prius gets better gas mileage when the parts come together.
Rule #2.. Speed doesn’t kill.. Its the sudden stop.
August 21st, 2007 at 12:34 amYet again makes me laugh at my AP environmental science class.
August 21st, 2007 at 12:41 amditto Dan
August 21st, 2007 at 4:39 am