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That's my definition of all these work "teaming" arrangements. I used to call it "regression to the mean", but soon realized that was far too charitable
The fatter crash test dummies that could save lives (BBC)
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport; 2020 C43; 2021 Sahara 4xe 1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica Wife's: 2015 X1 xDrive28i Son's: 2009 328i; 2018 330i xDrive
Driving tests need to become a LOT more difficult. There are people out there who should not be driving. They are totally incompetent to pilot 2 tons of hurtling steel down a public street.
Maybe if I wait long enough, the third recall will actually be the fix and I won't have to cool my heels around the waiting room an extra three hours for the first two "repairs".
Meanwhile, a press request:
If you or your child recently took a driver's education course online, please email PR@edmunds.com by Friday, March 13, 2015 to tell a reporter what it was like.
Fiat Chrysler Concedes Violating Rule on Reporting Death and Injury Claims (NY Times)
NHTSA wants 7 automakers to answer Takata questions (Detroit News)
BMW may have failed to recall vehicles on time (Detroit News)
NHTSA Fines Triumph Motorcycles $2.9 Million (motorcycle-usa.com)
"Last August, the traffic-safety expert Leonard Evans published a paper in the American Journal of Public Health. In the early nineteen-seventies, Evans wrote, the United States was often said to have the safest roads in the world, and since then traffic fatalities in the U.S. have declined by forty-one per cent. That sounds like an impressive number.
But then Evans pointed out that, in the same period, traffic deaths in the Netherlands, for instance, declined at twice that rate. The United States, once No. 1 in the world in safety, has fallen to nineteenth place. If American highway deaths had followed the European pattern, Evans concluded, twenty thousand lives would have been saved in 2011 alone."
No talking.
No texting.
Japan 8.3
New Zealand 8.3
Belgium 7.7
Slovenia 7.6
Spain 7.6
United States 7.6
Austria 6.9
France 6.3
Canada 6.1
Australia 5.6
Israel 5.2
Germany 4.9
Malta 4.9
Netherlands 4.9
Switzerland 4.9
Finland 4.7
United Kingdom 4.3
Iceland 3.8
Sweden 3.7
Denmark 3.4
Norway 3.3
So the US is better than some, worse than others, not surprising given our lax licensing and often poor roads.
There are definitely a few here who likely think 55 was more than fast enough, thank you very much.
The reason the USA only has a mediocre rating is probably due to many complexities interacting, of which culture cannot be denied as a major player. As for Japan, anyone who has lived in Alaska knows that their climbers have had a pretty high fatality rate in the past. Is the samurai spirit still alive, deep in the psyche somewhere? Who knows.
50 Years Ago, ‘Unsafe at Any Speed’ Shook the Auto World (NY Times)
"Automakers looking to earn top safety ratings are peering around the corner to prepare for the next directive from the industry’s de facto safety standard setter.
This time, it will involve headlights.
If all goes well...a good performance on the headlight assessment will become a requirement for a vehicle to earn the institute’s highest safety rating, Top Safety Pick+, as early as 2017."
Insurance Institute trains its sights on headlights (autonews.com)
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport; 2020 C43; 2021 Sahara 4xe 1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica Wife's: 2015 X1 xDrive28i Son's: 2009 328i; 2018 330i xDrive
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Texases, you're thinking common sense. That doesn't seem to happen anymore in gov, universities or engineering. Complicated things bring in more money.
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport; 2020 C43; 2021 Sahara 4xe 1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica Wife's: 2015 X1 xDrive28i Son's: 2009 328i; 2018 330i xDrive
I'm with roadburner--all I need is seat belts, air bags, ABS and a locking diff. A rear view camera on a small car like mine isn't necessary. I truly loathe all the other safety nannies. I bet someday we'll calculate that they cause as many accidents as they prevent, due to increasing the confidence of drivers who shouldn't have any.
Death rate/person in the US is about 10, in Italy about 6. But no info on rate/km, US drives a lot more.
Naples, Palermo---tough cities to drive in. You have to be really focused. It reminded me of being projected into a video game or a pinball machine.
"The company, which actually has one vehicle – the Volvo XC90 – in which no one in the U.S. has died in in at least four years"
Volvo Says It Will Have A Death-Proof Car By 2020 (Consumerist)