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Old 01-21-2010, 09:36 PM   #42 (permalink)
Christ
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I consider motorcycles (when operated responsibly) safer than cars for collision odds. Why? It's less than 1/4 the width of the average car... which means you have 75% better chance of avoiding what would have been an offset frontal impact in a car.

I actually say this about any smaller vehicle. It's smaller, which makes it harder to hit, so in the scheme of things, the idea of crash safety being half of a larger vehicle is negated by the odds of being hit also being half.

Before anyone comments on it, I already know that this is called fuzzy logic, and it's a twisted way to look at it. I don't really care, though, because in some way, it does actually make sense.
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