Stupid people die more in car wrecks.
“Women and children hardest hit.”
ok, so this is part of income inequality, white privilege, the evil 1%, all of that. Got it..........
Us poor ignernt hillbillies who make it to middle age are pros.
So clearly we need to buy new cars for the lower socio-economic groups.
Something with a catchy name, like maybe Cash-For-Clunkers.
Seat belts help a LOT too...my experience is the crappier the vehicle, the less likely you’ll see the driver wearing belts.
Stupid people do not wear seat belts.
Could it be: less standards you try and meet in life? You don’t have as much to lose, so you don’t protect yourself as much?
Think of the difference in your driving when you are single and coming home tired after a late night, and how you drive when you have your children plus another family’s child in the back seat. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE in how cautious you drive.
hey you piece of @#$@#$ rag, i had a broken down nova, and then another one, and since i’m typing this i’m still alive.
All my friends and I were lower middle class Italians. We all had junk for cars. out of about 15 of us, NONE died.
maybe you should look into the CULTURE of those who are dying.
@#$#$ dam victim hunting parasites.
what the hell are the gonna think of next?
#lamnorghiniprivlege
#1 Global Warming
#2 Climate Change
Well I am glad they are putting the lack of ‘COL’ money to good use.
I was afraid ‘they’ were wasting it.
This govt reminds me of the disheveled man talking to a reporter-
“Yes, I made millions on my invention.
However, I spent a lot on wild women and booze and just wasted the rest”.
#CarWreckVictimLivesMatter
If they don't get into an accident in the first place, then the lack of first-class safety equipment is moot. So it really is about being a better driver.
-PJ
Lack of education causes all kinds of problems, especially when you live in an advanced society like ours.
That’s why we spend hundreds of billions of dollars every year on education.
>>As for people 25 and older with less than a high school diploma, fatality rates have actually increased over time, bucking the national trend.
>>They own cars that are older and have lower crash-test ratings.
They might also be people who make poor decisions, such as not graduating from high school. These are the folks who cut across 4 lanes of interstate traffic moving at 80 mph so they can hit the off-ramp that was clearly marked with signs a mile back. Same for running stop lights. Texting while driving. Seat belt use. Most crashes begin with one or more bad decisions.
Even a 5 year old Kia has 10 air bags, so the “older car” excuse may have worked in 2000, but its kinda outlived its usefulness.
obviously this is enemy agit-prop... to prepare the few remaining American workers for Obama’s next Welfare give=away program ... he plans to give them all nice new safe-to-drive Mercedes Benzs.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB1YX0kwrYk
The solution is simple. Obama can use his “pen and his phone” to issue an executive order requiring greater numbers of the well-educated and wealthy to die in car crashes...
And this is because most of the safety “innovations” out there add to the cost of the car, pushing even typical family sedans out of the reach of the poor. The poor are therefore stuck with the hobbes’ choice of buying a (less safe) used car, or a little CAFE-cheater rollerskate; notice these cars are usually the ones with the biggest “rebates” and discounts, and tend to be marketed to lower income brackets with less sophisticated advertising using hiphop music and “urban” elements.
Those with more education, and therefore more money, can afford safer, more advanced cars. Additionally, those with more education/income tend to take better care of their vehicles, doing regular maintenance and replacing tires on schedule. Lower-income people either can’t afford the maintenance, or don’t know that they are supposed to perform it.
No doubt the government solution will be more of our tax dollars to provide subsidies to the automakers so they can afford to put their safety tech in cheaper cars, and subsidies to the lower income brackets so they can “afford” better cars.
IMHO, *all* safety items ought to be options, so we can decide how protected we want to be, just as health “insurance” needs to go back to being a (relatively) free market. Want better healthcare, a nicer car, better house? F’ing work for it like the rest of us. Get an education (no excuse these days; the gov all but gives it away), develop a work ethic, and apply yourself.
Looking at the abstract, it looks like the “study” did not control for such parameters as whether the “disadvantaged” wore their seat belts less often, were more likely to drive drug or stoned, or don’t read English because they are illegal aliens.