[extropy-chat] now that's fuel efficiency

[Al Brooks]

Your Saab may be safer on paper, but when the crunch came would you be safer than if you were in a larger heavier vehicle? There is only one way to find out. Safety ratings don't mean much until you are in an accident. Personally I will choose a larger heavier auto over a Saab no matter what the Saab's safety ratings are.
BTW an auto worker in Detroit told me he was making over $30 an hour. No wonder the price of autos is so high.


Brian Lee <brian_a_lee at hotmail.com> wrote:
It's not just size and weight though. My saab 9-3 has better safety ratings 
than a lincoln towncar and weighs 1000 lbs less (3285 vs. 4359). It is also 
nimbler and faster so I can better avoid accidents.

BAL

>From: Al Brooks 
>To: ExI chat list 
>Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] now that's fuel efficiency
>Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:05:53 -0800 (PST)
>
>--- Alan Eliasen wrote:
>Yes, I was being hard on Detroit, they have to keep
>their prices affordable while paying high salaries to
>their workers.
>Anyhow, though heavy vehicles are fuel gulpers they do
>offer more protection in accidents. I got sideswiped
>by an 18 wheeler once while driving a Lincoln; could
>have been killed had I been driving a lighter vehicle.
>
>
> >Considering that the thruster has a thrust of a
> > whopping 70 millinewtons,
> > (that's the force exerted by about 7 U.S. dollar
> > bills, or about 7 raisins,
> > sitting in earth's gravity) a 2000-lb car could go
> > from 0 to 60 mph in ... 4
> > days? If you eliminate all sources of friction,
> > that is. That's probably the
> > guy who was in front of me in traffic tonight.
>
>
>
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