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Originally Posted by sirhc
If I ended up with a full size Buick, I’d say I’d be in the 40 percentile of vehicle size up here in the mountains of Idaho. I don’t pretend to have an in depth understanding of physics, but I guarantee that I’d fare better hitting either of those hazards in a 3,300 lb car than an 1,800 pound car. If you don’t agree, please offer something constructive or refrain from replying.
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Search here (or on the web) for a study done by Wenzel & Ross, of Lawrence Berkeley Labs, on actual risks of various types of cars. Turns out that your intuition about physics doesn't hold up in the real world.