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  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    I was thinking about this before, but am I much better in an MX5, I just take out their shins…

    Obligatory I have not hit anyone with my car

    Just don’t ask about that cracked windshield

  • @Olgratin_Magmatoe
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    261 year ago

    Part of why this is a problem is because car companies compete with each other on safety. And a good way to do that is to add more mass to your vehicle so that in a car crash your own maintains more momentum and therefore imparts less of a deceleration on you than a smaller car would. So the end result is a arms race between car companies to build bigger and bigger vehicles (and also less fuel efficient ignoring ICE improvements in recent years).

    Compare that to airplanes where instead of competing for safety, they all cooperate on safety. The end result being that all planes are safe and rarely crash. Granted, airplanes are inherently at lower risk than cars due to their being less of them and them being separated by large distances in the sky. But in the end cooperation vs competition of safety makes a big difference in everyone’s safety as a whole.

    • VeganPizza69 ⓋOP
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      91 year ago

      Airplanes don’t usually collide, and if they do, it doesn’t really “matter”. You could say that air traffic is very low-density.

      But, yeah, it’s an arms race. This ends with armored SUVs and monster trucks.

    • @Danatronic
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      71 year ago

      Airplanes are also only operated by trained professionals who are listening to other trained professionals for coordination. Driver’s licenses are given out like candy.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      The solution is obvious, just tax the SHIT out of heavy vehicles. 100€/y for every 100 kg over 1000 kg. 2.5 ton death machine? That’ll be 1500 €/y. 1.7 ton BMW ? 700 €/year. Seems fair to me.

      Problem is consumer tastes and automotive lobbying makes this totally politically untenable.

    • diprount_tomato
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      21 year ago

      Speak for America, not for the rest of humanity

    • HobbitFoot
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      11 year ago

      Part of it is just how both are used.

      Taking a plane is a service that people buy. Making flying dangerous makes people less likely to buy flights.

      For a car, the operator either owns the vehicle or is known by the owner. It gets used differently, and there is an accepted lesser standard of safety.

    • very smart Idiot
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      -111 year ago

      ( ͡° ʖ̯ ͡°) I am tired of discussing.

      But you are wrong. Trust me bro.

  • TomMasz
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    251 year ago

    “I guarantee that you’ll never see pedestrians or cyclists!”

  • @mindbleach
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    181 year ago

    Definitely spring for the undercoating, the extended warranty, and the explosive reactive armor.

  • @[email protected]
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    161 year ago

    True, the tank will be very safe when they accidentally flatten the kid while backing out of the garage because of the poor visibility.

  • @dopeshark
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    151 year ago

    “It’s safe for YOU, good luck to the poor pedestrians you encounter ;)”

  • @agedbeef
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    141 year ago

    Did I mention the tank is a tank? -Sold!

  • @Agent641
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    71 year ago

    Safe until the NLAWS come to visit.

    • @doppelgangmember
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      1 year ago

      Sorry, ol’ thing takes up the driveway.

      Gotta park down the street ¯\ (ツ)

  • @Agareth
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    -31 year ago

    Removed by mod