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“I guarantee that you’ll never see pedestrians or cyclists!”
Part of why this is a problem is because car companies compete with each other on safety. And a good way to do that is to add more mass to your vehicle so that in a car crash your own maintains more momentum and therefore imparts less of a deceleration on you than a smaller car would. So the end result is a arms race between car companies to build bigger and bigger vehicles (and also less fuel efficient ignoring ICE improvements in recent years).
Compare that to airplanes where instead of competing for safety, they all cooperate on safety. The end result being that all planes are safe and rarely crash. Granted, airplanes are inherently at lower risk than cars due to their being less of them and them being separated by large distances in the sky. But in the end cooperation vs competition of safety makes a big difference in everyone’s safety as a whole.
Airplanes don’t usually collide, and if they do, it doesn’t really “matter”. You could say that air traffic is very low-density.
But, yeah, it’s an arms race. This ends with armored SUVs and monster trucks.
Airplanes are also only operated by trained professionals who are listening to other trained professionals for coordination. Driver’s licenses are given out like candy.
Speak for America, not for the rest of humanity
Ahahahah, imagine thinking Europe and Asia don’t buy SUVs in absurd numbers 🤣🤣🤣🤣
No we don’t
You do. https://www.statista.com/statistics/697801/passenger-car-sales-in-italy-by-segment/ https://www.acea.auto/figure/new-passenger-cars-by-segment-in-eu/#:~:text=SUVs account for almost half,the number of units sold.
You’re all fat little pigs just like the US. You just have the “our shit doesn’t stink” mentally.
Definitely spring for the undercoating, the extended warranty, and the explosive reactive armor.
“It’s safe for YOU, good luck to the poor pedestrians you encounter ;)”
True, the tank will be very safe when they accidentally flatten the kid while backing out of the garage because of the poor visibility.
Did I mention the tank is a tank? -Sold!
Safe until the NLAWS come to visit.
Sorry, ol’ thing takes up the driveway.
Gotta park down the street ¯\ (ツ)/¯
“Safety for me, not for thee.” - SUV owners, probably.
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