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[Tricky]

Yeah, well there seems to be some disagreement about that.

US Dept. of Trans.
http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/808569.PDF

Effect of a 100-pound weight reduction for passenger cars
NHTSA estimates that a 100-pound reduction in the average weight of passenger cars, with
accompanying reductions (based on historical patterns) in other size parameters such as track width,
and in the absence of any compensatory improvements in safety technology, would have a
significant adverse impact on safety:
• Fatalities would increase by an estimated 302, which would be 1.1 percent over the current
level.
• Serious or moderate injuries (AIS 2-6) in nonrollover crashes would increase by 1,823,
which would be 1.6 percent over the current level
• Police-reported 'A' or TC' injuries, which are usually less serious than AIS 2-6 injuries, would
increase by 8,804 in nonrollover crashes, which would be 3.2 percent over the current level.

Did you read the whole thing?

Conclusion:
The results have a clear pattern: reducing a vehicle's weight increases net risk in collisions with substantially larger and stronger entities, reduces net risk in collisions with much smaller and more vulnerable entities, and has little effect on net fatalities in collisions with vehicles of about the same size (although nonfatal injuries increase).

So if all cars are smaller, net risk is reduced. And of course, this is assuming that all other things remain the same, i.e. no other safety improvements, of which there have been many since that fourteen-year-old study. Neither does it take into account health benefits, such as reduced pollution from smaller cars or economic benefits, such as reduced reliance on fossil fuels.​

 

[sarge]

Yeah, well there seems to be some disagreement about that.

US Dept. of Trans.
http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/808569.PDF

Effect of a 100-pound weight reduction for passenger cars
NHTSA estimates that a 100-pound reduction in the average weight of passenger cars, with
accompanying reductions (based on historical patterns) in other size parameters such as track width,
and in the absence of any compensatory improvements in safety technology, would have a
significant adverse impact on safety:
• Fatalities would increase by an estimated 302, which would be 1.1 percent over the current
level.
• Serious or moderate injuries (AIS 2-6) in nonrollover crashes would increase by 1,823,
which would be 1.6 percent over the current level
• Police-reported 'A' or TC' injuries, which are usually less serious than AIS 2-6 injuries, would
increase by 8,804 in nonrollover crashes, which would be 3.2 percent over the current level.

I suppose it was unreasonable to expect you to read my posts before responding to them - you appear to have failed to read either your own post or the information contained in the report you quoted.

That report actually confirms everything I wrote.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

If a white Republican wins the Whitehouse,.....

In your dreams.

 

[bikerdruid]

Originally Posted by Robert Prey
If a ..... Republican wins the Whitehouse,.....

In your dreams.

it is almost 2012.
isn't it about time that the GOP named a viable candidate?
or are they actually interested in giving obama another term so the can make up further fantasies about him?

 

[Robrob]

I'm waiting for the first gay (Democratic) President to be elected. You can bet four years later the GOP will be running a slate of cross-dressers and accusing the DNC of being homophobic.

 

[Robert Prey]

I suppose it was unreasonable to expect you to read my posts before responding to them - you appear to have failed to read either your own post or the information contained in the report you quoted.

That report actually confirms everything I wrote.

Yeah, right.

 

[bikerdruid]

I'm waiting for the first gay (Democratic) President to be elected. You can bet four years later the GOP will be running a slate of cross-dressers and accusing the DNC of being homophobic.

the gop could run bachman's hubby!

 

[Upchurch]

Global warming 'confirmed' by independent study

Just sayin'.

 

[Gazpacho]

I'm waiting for the first gay (Democratic) President to be elected.

Already was, and just look at what happened when he lost re-election!