Posted on 05/27/2024 7:26:37 AM PDT by george76
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has found that pedestrians are twice as likely to be hit by an electric or hybrid car than by a gasoline- or diesel-powered vehicle.
The scientists have hypothesized that the relatively quiet operations of an electric vehicle as well as high pedestrian density in noisy urban areas could be major reasons.
The study uncovered a pedestrian casualty rate of 5.16 per 100 million miles driven for electric and hybrid vehicles, more than double the 2.4 per 100 million miles recorded for traditional gasoline-powered cars.
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I suspect they are the same people I mentioned in #19.
The “green movement” is anti-human, at so many levels.
It makes sense. They are basically very quiet. Wait until self driving is mainstream. Don’t go in the road as a pedestrian.
They make us all convert to EV’s
and then ban EV’s as unsafe
Death Race 2024!
Women: 10 points more than men in all age brackets
Teenagers: 40 points
Toddlers under 12: 70 points
Anyone over 75: 100 points, regardless of sex
Exactly. EV users never go to far and are typically used in far more urban/populated areas.
Pedestrian hits vs miles driven is a lazy stat. Compare two different type cars in urban areas.
Certainly not being able to hear them may have some impact, but I suspect it that big of a deal.
I almost got hit over there because the driver drove on the wrong side of the road. I think they were trying to kill me because pretty soon they were ALL driving on the wrong side of the road. I left and never went back.
Yes, it’s how quiet they are. People haven’t yet had time to adapt. With ICE vehicles we’ve been conditioned to see AND hear them. We associate certain vehicles with certain noises. I knew a blind lady for a long time and one of their blind advocate organizations have been working for years to institute rules to make electric cars have some kind of noise.
Are we talking Native Americans or the wealthier H-1 Visa kind?
Dots, not Feathers.
Gotcha
Hybrids are pretty quiet.
Don’t forget ‘Pull Starts!’
Can I improve my social score by voting for Trump? /s
When the city mouse is visiting the country mouse, the country mouse is apt to remind the city mouse's pups to "Look both ways, sometimes there are two cars on the road!"
There might also be the over estimation of the capabilities of the self driving algorithm. Even horses have to be reined in at times
Dot or feather?
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