From yesterday's thread:
Before you flame this article..Too late...
There is another aspect of safety not considered when using conventional logic: the safety of the people outside the car. A lightweight vehicle will be less aggressive (less likely to injure the occupants of another vehicle, bicyclists, or pedestrians external to the primary vehicle in a collision), thereby reducing the overall number of traffic deaths. .This was written by quiche eating, sandal wearing, apartment dwelling, city living yuppies. As only they would think of bicyclists and pedestrians when factoring 'Car Safety'. If they lived in Chicago they'd be Cubs fans.
For an object moving at a given speed, a reduction in mass corresponds to a reduction in the amount of energy that object brings into a collision with another object
Try that In English elitist yuppie scum. fyi, That's one of Newton's Laws of Motion (2nd one), F=ma (Force = mass x acceleration)
Thus, a lightweight fleet (traveling at the same speeds) is statistically less dangerous than a conventional (heavy) fleet.Yeah that's right, 'statistically' Its also why nobody ever dies in the Bumper Car ride at Carnivals.
However take that micro mini lightweight fleet of death traps and put them on any expressway where there's an 85,000# Semi two feet from your rear bumper, you see traffic stopped up ahead but HE DOESN'T and you can't change lanes because you've already used all 25 HP of your energy efficient green car. You won't even have time to say a Hail Mary before you're flattened along with ten micro mini death traps in front of you.
I HATE these people!
If they wan to commit mass suicide they should buy a a gun, but leave ME Alone.
From yesterday's thread:
The Obammesiah just needs to issue a new edict. He will declare that F=MA is unfair, and unreasonably targets the disadvantaged among us. Once F=MA is repealed, we won’t have issues with 85K lb. trucks, because all vehicles on the road will be equal. Silly commoner.