Another job well done by:
Posted on 04/14/2009 11:01:43 AM PDT by reaganaut1
WASHINGTON — Consumers who buy minicars to economize on fuel are making a big tradeoff when it comes to safety in collisions, according to an insurance group that slammed three minimodels into midsize ones in tests.
In a report prepared for release on Tuesday, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety said that crash dummies in all three models tested — the Honda Fit, the Toyota Yaris and the Smart Fortwo — fared poorly in the collisions. By contrast, the midsize models into which they crashed fared well or acceptably. Both the minicars and midsize cars were traveling 40 miles per hour, so the crash occurs at 80 m.p.h.
The institute concludes that while driving smaller and lighter cars saves fuel, “downsizing and down-weighting is also associated with an increase in deaths on the highway,” said Adrian Lund, the institute’s president.
“It’s a big effect — it’s not small,” he said in a telephone interview.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I’d rather drive in a Flintstones car than one of these tin boxes.
Common sense from the NY Times? It’s desperate Times!
How did carbon dioxide, a trace gas, become the main heat-trapping gas besides global warming agitprop?
What happened to water vapor like all the weather reports stating humidity?
This just in: big cars are stronger than small cars.... repeat..... big cars are stronger than small cars .... that is all.
I really do NOT want to end up being scraped off of the road and put into plastic bags after a collision, so I’ll pass on the Smart Car.
I feel safer on my motorcycles than packed in like a sardine in one of those econocars.
Yes, and in a smartcar, if you have a collision with a dog, you’ll lose.
Isaac Newton for the win, Alex.
Duh!
Another job well done by:
LOL bigtime.
ROTFLMAO!
This is simply not true. The closing speed is 80 mph — but, that doesn't make it the same as a crash at 80 mph.
We saw one a few weeks ago with Washington plates, here in southern California; I shuddered at the thought of that much travel in one....then I later guessed that it's probably a "tow behind" that the snowbird RV crowd uses as they winter down here.
Probably not true from a statistical standpoint
From MSF Literature there is a
33:1 odds ratio for death per mile driven
on a motorcycle vs passenger car
I'll still take my bike however
But I Know the risks
I’m thinkin’, new meat for those car-crushing displays at monster truck rallies...
The Bum Rap on Biofuels
American Thinker | 5-13-08 | Herbert Meyer
Posted on 05/14/2008 3:59:06 AM PDT by Renfield
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015711/posts
Campaign to vilify ethanol revealed
ethanol producer Magazine | May 16, 2008 | By Kris Bevill
Posted on 05/17/2008 9:22:13 AM PDT by Kevin J waldroup
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017389/posts
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