[extropy-chat] Driver safety and the immortalist

[paul.bridger]

Brian Atkins wrote:
> Slide 17 in there shows decreasing risk to drivers as the mass of the 
> vehicle climbs. The report seems to try to downplay that correlation, 
> but I don't find it convincing. Slide 19 also shows that more expensive 
> vehicles are safer.

So, given that you have an accident, higher mass vehicles are safer (for 
their occupants)...

BillK wrote:
 > In contrast, single-vehicle crashes represented 65% of crashes involving
 > SUVs and 59% of crashes involving pickups.
 > So SUVs and pickups seem to have a tendency to self-destruct.

...but SUVs and pickups (higher mass vehicles) have more accidents.

Given that SUVs etc. cause more single car accidents, it's reasonable to 
assume they cause more multiple car accidents, too. How annoying that SUV 
drivers should cause more accidents, and then have higher survivability.

Paul Bridger