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http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/26/2627.asp
Also, I'd argue speed is blamed far too much and far too widely precisely because a vast amount of miles driven by EVERYONE is above the speed limit, so naturally by the laws of numbers some accidents will occur at above the posted speed limit, particularly when that limit is under-posted causing far more than 15% to exceed it regularly.
I've also seen studies that use the premise "IF YOU HAVE ACCIDENT" or "WHEN YOU HAVE AN ACCIDENT" to mislead about plain physics. Yes, crashing at 100 MPH is worse than 50 MPH! However, one should think about the likelihood of a crash at 100 MPH vs. 50 MPH before accepting the premise, if and when.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again; Air travel really points this phenomenon out as they routinely travel at 500 MPH with a better safety record than vehicular travel.
For example, one should care about a 25 MPH speed limit on a road causing 100 accidents per million miles traveled. If a 35 MPH speed limit on that same road caused only 10 accidents to happen in the same million mile sample, then you'd have to prove that accidents at 35 MPH were 10X as deadly! If you can't, you are murdering people with your 25 MPH speed limit!
In general terms, yes.
I am certainly not in the camp of “speed kills” and everyone should drive 55... just think we all need to be realistic and at some point there is a safety issue driving too far above the limit. If anything because there are so many poor drivers that you have to look out for!
2023 Mercedes EQE 350 4Matic / 2022 Ram 1500 Bighorn, Built to Serve
I’m not sure if I should make this clear, or not. In any one accident caused by a “bad driver” , the other side/driver can normally safely be called not @ fault or still a good driver. Anecdotally, very few bad drivers take out (only) other bad drivers or self eliminate. Example, drunk hits drunk, drunk driver or drunks killed.
Those that that drive with no to without proper insurance by (DEFACTO) definition elect themselves to the “BAD driver category.
In CA, it’s estimated 25% to 30% of cars/drivers carry no to little proper insurance. I’m just guessing that the other 49 states, et al, are similar or not far behind. (50 states: 221.7 M licensed drivers) https://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx
So those that drive thinking THINGS on the roads are “SAFE”, to having expectations the 1st world folks drive better, albeit safer; are naive or at best delusional. I wonder out loud what % folks with that attitude add to the pool?
Indeed, I would argue the first (goal) order of business is to never, ever be a victim, or involved.
Indeed it is almost laughable (his city?) that dah mayor (of a very big a big metropolitan CA, city app 1.99 M) was involved in an accident: his bicycle allegedly hit by a car (SUV, probably driven by a valued illegal & probably with no insurance?) and broke a lot of his body parts.
https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2019/01/02/san-jose-mayor-liccardo-hospitalized-bike-crash.html
The illegal/SUV conjecture is pretty whiny and inappropriate IMO, par for the course for the lucky generation who cashed in on that economy I suppose.
It is amazing that that federal agency does NOT track bicycle fatalities and injuries. My take is bike transportation is @ least epidemicslly dangerous as motorcycle driving.
It''s a Darwin thing.
One no-lighter this evening, an older Highlander, so maybe without automatic lights.
All we’re doing is avoiding hitting concrete curb sides and bumpers, 3 psi above placard, 5,000 miles rotations, torque to spec wheel nuts..
This seems like a sketchy claim based on what I see on the road here
Just yesterday I got blindly cut off by a typical eastside drone in a Lexus GS. I was in the fintail (how does one not see that car?) and I just laid on the horn. That car has a very loud horn.
Most UN upgraded oem horns sound pretty wimpy. So how my horns are currently used, an inexpensive upgrade is not worth the time nor expense or performance improvement.
For some reason, your 2nd para reminded me of an accident, a legally parked 87 TLC. While in a store, I heard an awful crashing sound (my guess, hit gas NOT brakes) I looked out the stores window to see a late model BMW 5 series rear end up against the 1987 Toyota Landcruiser’s rear end with Smitty Bilt rear tube/push bumpers. On closer examination, the BMW seemed to have sustained approximately $5,000 of damage. The TLC seemed to have a bumper powder coat paint smudge. The driver asked if the car was mine, whereby I nodded. She commenced to say she would not have hit the car,
IF its’ front wheels were touching the concrete stop bumpers. So I looked @ her (probably incredulously) and said I’d remove the damage she caused with rubbing compound, then walked away.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
Idid get the license plate # & descriptions, in case of false hit/run claim: she claiming “VICTIM” with me as RUN.
I also am aware of the concept that: “ no good deed goes Unpunished”.
No real need to think and act like the apocalypse is here. As I have been saying all along it is the safest it’s ever been ? https://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/topicoverview
Now that the process is virtually privatized now, I also have suspicions that licenses are effectively for sale, if not directly, then by paying for a certain amount of tests or classes - not that the tests themselves are difficult compared to other developed countries.
2023 Mercedes EQE 350 4Matic / 2022 Ram 1500 Bighorn, Built to Serve
Just above freezing here this morning, and although the humidity doesn't seem high - clear skies, my street was slathered in de-icer, to the point where it looked like it might have rained a little. I saw it on no other roads, and funny thing, at the bottom of my hill is a bridge, which had no de-icer at all. Makes sense, as bridges don't freeze early or anything, it's just slight hills you have to watch out for.
First was this gem: Jeep wrangler is coming onto the highway from an on-ramp and decides to go from merge lane to middle lane. You can see in the video that the right lane is sparsely used here, as it merges with the middle lane a little further up the road, but rather than use the clearing that other vehicles use, this guy decides to just jump the berm in his amped up Jeep, which promptly slows him down, and nearly puts him into the side of my Q7.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-10CvTvSd4
I considered stopping and offering the use of my kinetic rope, which would have yanked the guy out no problem, but with so many on site, I figured the last thing needed was another cook in that kitchen!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIUb0hCbYtM
Your first vehicle merging link is almost EXACTLY like my CHP encounter. It was on 2 lanes each way interstate, high desert, see forever conditions, etc.. He finally woke up as his vehicles left rear quarter panel almost crashed into my right front side.
That Jeep is mindboggling - I think vehicle type often influences behavior.
Yes, It can be found in the FARS, insurance https://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/vehicle-size-and-weight/fatalityfacts/passenger-vehicles web sites, which was recently posted. The last I perused, compact to midsized sedans had that (your) distinction. It can be seen as significant because sedan population is around 25% - of the passenger vehicle.
Again, the underlying environmental hypothesis was that smaller cars crashing in the smaller cars would be safer. Reality sux eh? In Washington DC. one can see all the environmentalist’s getting around town in small car Cadillac Escalades or the small compact Chevrolet Tahoe’s 🤑😜 So the other reality is that things are FAR safer with SUV’s, trucks, pick ups being much BIGGER!
My own personal feeling was that the environmentists were trying to drive folks wanting/needing size 12 size shoes to size 5 petite. OBVIOUSLY more than 75% of the paying driving public disagree.
Now don’t give me wrong, I was one person who wanted/needed a (real wee compact) 1970 VW Beetle, bought used in 1971. But even then, I KNEW that I was taking a risk. This car was literally dangerous.(in case of accident) So really, this is not a new concept.
My folks were not keen on me getting this for a multitude of reasons. But, one reason why was because of the accident/injury/death component. But I got 32/34 mpg with evacuator exhaust. So in approximately 250,000 miles, I happily burnt 7,813 gallons of gas vs 20,833. At that time, a normal car got approximately 10 to 12 miles a gallon. Getting 15 mpg in my folks midsized 1972? sedan was like astonishing & goes without saying ...rare.
So now with a CUV getting 37 mpg, in 250,000 miles, I will happily burn 6,757 gals. The VW Jetta with 45 to 50 miles a gallon in 250,000 miles,will burn approximately 5,000/5,555 gallons.
Once again, diesels make all the difference
My 4200+ lb car that can hit 45 mpg on the highway and also be one of the safer vehicles on the road is fine by me.
The so called “arms race” apocalypse is WAY overblown! The statistics both expose & hide that!
Yes,! GO DIESEL!
So to keep the (both) profits flowing, they are GLUTTING the gas PUG/RUG/MGUG inventories, chasing ULSD profits. So help dah USA, take a motor vehicle trip?
So through an interesting set of dynamics, even in CA though we are tax WAY more, CPMD Cost per mile driven: PUG is app 76% MORE than ULSD, which can cost more than PUG per gal. Same model 21 mpg PUG /37 mpg ULSD.
And then, there is the POLAR VORTEX......😱
San Francisco /NYC piers are not 12 ft under water, as promised BY the environmentalists, dates LONGER than since past. Indeed, the new Golden State Warriors stadium is being built on land a few feet above seawater near ...piers. I guess SF didn’t get the FYI memo.
That said, I do appreciate the polar vortex phenomenon; we're really enjoying our warm (relatively) reprieve here! On Friday night, the temperature was 0C (32F)! We even had an honest snow storm that evening, midwest style!
Oh & I do remember being out for 10 hour days of minus- 50 F to minus-70 F! (upstate NY.)
South Lake Tahoe, CAvis a “killer” at 44° F.👌
While I’m sure of aggressive SUV/CUV, PU truck drivers, % wise, of car/sedan drivers do their fair share of aggressive driving. Then, there are the PASSIVE/aggressive set.🤪😱
Passive-aggressive, like LLCs - definitely have that covered in western WA.
I was always taught, PASS & and get out of the way! Cruising is for the SLOW to SLOWER lanes.
Well I guess the POLAR VORTEX is going to force FAR more energy consumption than the global WARMISTS /marxists/socialists want? I would further guess the enviro con’s consumption MODEL are the homeless in tents, or ZERO manufacturing. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitter-cold-natural-gas-shortages-133018251.html
Here’s a TMI about natural gas . https://www.investopedia.com/natural-gas-etfs-find-support-as-polar-vortex-sets-in-4585055
It’s a chilly 60° F right now in Silicon Valley, CA. Neighbors in South Lake Tahoe, CA tell me it’s a balmy 45° F.
-3F here this morning, and it feels pleasant enough.
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