Posted on 05/25/2024 4:07:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Murphy’s Law, or anything that can go wrong will go wrong, certainly sounds like it’s at play with all things “green” agenda. Think you’ve seen the extent of the damage? Well think again, because things seem to always just go from bad to worse.
According to a new study out of the United Kingdom, drivers behind the wheel of electric vehicles/hybrid-electric (“E-HE”) vehicles prove to be more than twice as likely to hit a pedestrian than drivers behind the wheel of internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, overall. But, when in urban settings, E-HE vehicles were “three times more dangerous” than ICE vehicles. Here’s this, from the study’s results:
During 2013–2017, casualty rates per 100 million miles were 5.16 … for E-HE vehicles and 2.40 … for ICE vehicles, indicating that collisions were twice as likely … with E-HE vehicles.
Poisson regression found no evidence that E-HE vehicles were more dangerous in rural environments … but strong evidence that E-HE vehicles were three times more dangerous than ICE vehicles in urban environments….
Of course, one can speculate that perhaps the reason E-HE vehicles were not found to be more dangerous in rural areas is probably because there are almost no E-HE vehicles in rural areas—impractical, expensive, hypocritical status symbol cars are typically a city slicker leftie purchase, not a car that rural people typically choose.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
My wife’s new Hyundai hybrid actually makes a sound when the car is in electric drive…kind of a Star Trek swoosh. In reverse the car has a back up dinging alarm like a dump truck.
That and the owners are usually driving with their chins up and eyes half closed, preening in their evident virtue.
By the headline’s logic, pedestrians are more likely to be killed encountering a hippo than an EV.
Maybe EV drivers are just 3 times more likely to be incompetent brain dead idiots?
As the number of EVs increase and ICEs decrease, both of these statements eventually will be true.
So don’t drive hippos?
When I first looked at the headline, I thought it said “Presbyterians” which left me wondering. Why would they be more vulnerable?
“Yes,my work is on a side street, and I often cross it. I notice whether cars are coming primarily by sound. If I don’t hear a car, sometime I won’t bother to look for one.”
You are lucky to still be alive!
“I run every day- you cannot hear the EV’s which is a problem....if you want to change sides of the road, avoid a pothole, move out slightly into the road around a blind curb i always rely on my ears to hear if there is a car around....you cannot hear these EV’s which makes it even more dangerous.”
You are lucky to still be alive!
In more ways than one!
You never hear the one that gets you.
“if you want to change sides of the road, avoid a pothole, move out slightly into the road around a blind curb i always rely on my ears to hear”
I bike several days a week. I NEVER rely on my ears.
I was taught at a young age over 70 years ago to always LOOK for traffic. I still hold to that.
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