Armored Hummers are best in urban environments!
I’m not sure if this is the article or not - didn’t click link - but I was reading yesterday that the number one best ever safety feature is not seat belts or even multiple air bags.
Its electronic stability control.
ESC has prevented thousands of rollovers and keeps cars and drivers from swerving and over correcting thereby saving thousands of lives.
Experts say the best car for your kid (or anyone for that matter) HAS to have ESC.
Teens drive older/smaller cars because they’re cheaper.
Obviously what we need is a new government subsidy program to help teen drivers buy newer/larger cars.
Safe cars are a human right, just like free cellphones, free broadband internet service, and free healthcare.
Are white kids safer in bigger newer cars, too? or just Teens?
This is a tough study to make.
For instance, a young driver might well be more careful with a newer car, because there is more fear of wrecking it than there would be in a beater. It is not necessarily the case that the car is inherently safer.
Also, youths might be more tempted to do stupid things in smaller, sportier cars. No one is going to weaving in a Buick Park Avenue, but last Sunday on I-85 from Atlanta, the crazy speeding weavers were driving a Dodge Neon and a Chevy Aveo.
“teens” again?
Why are only 13 to 19 year old black boys safer in these bigger newer cars?
Isn’t that racist?
I have a big ole car, too.
If it were up to me, I’d put all the teens in Smart Cars. What REALLY ANNOYS me are drunk teens, driving overcrowded SUVs wiping out entire families, at least in Texas.
They should only get an SUV when they can afford it themselves.
This is good advice, because a sixteen year old beginning driver is going to have an accident, and you, as a parent, need to do all you can to increase the possibility he will survive this first accident, so wrap him in as much steel as you can before you send him on his way.
Back in 1987 when my son turned sixteen, received his drivers license and wanted a car, I gave him a 1975 Volvo 240 station wagon. He wasn't too thrilled about driving such an "uncool" car, but he survived his first accident unscathed, and that's more than can be said for the lady in the Toyota he hit.
My in-law does fatal accident reconstruction for the state patrol and he bought a new F-150 because has seen it hold up to the most ridiculous crashes. It’s the one vehicle he’s never seen anyone die in that *was* wearing a seat belt.
The Charger Hellcat weighs over 4,400 lbs.
At full throttle it will empty it's 18.5 gallon tank in 12.5 minutes.
Hand the red key to a teenager, what could go wrong?
After all, it's a 4 door heavy ole gas guzzling sedan, right?
Oh pish-posh, pay no attention to those little details like 700+ HP and being the fastest 4 door sedan in the world at 204 mph.
We’ll never forget how my “land yacht” 1976 Olds 98 saved
my life one night on Route 85.
This headline is not news to us!
And soon,increasing CAFE requirements will make them impossible to buy.
CAFE needs to be dismantled, and the bureaucrats who enforce it need to find useful employment.