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Originally Posted by freebeard
Cars are made big and hard to maneuver so that when the accident happens the result is mitigated.
If the car is nimble and presents a small attack surface, the likelihood of an accident is reduced.
'You pays your money and you makes your choice.'
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My brother had an "incident" at a roundabout/traffic circle lately.
Cop showed up and said they have five fender benders a day at this location (
the ground was littered with small plastic parts).
Before the traffic circle there used to be fatalities, not many but they did happen. Cars ended up in trees hundreds of feet from the intersection because of the speeds.
So yes, I have no doubt that somewhere someplace somebody is doing the calculus for our own good and playing God to some degree.
Slowing us down to have more often but less deadly traffic accidents is merely a single example.
I'd like to see a study on the high side belt-lines and high hood levels.
The obstructed vision these cause along with high trunk lines has got to be balanced out with the higher crash safety of such features.
The hood line is a European pedestrian impact thing, belt-line I think US safety standard.............the high trunk perhaps styling or down-force aerodynamics.