old4570
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Is the road toll a good indicator for how people drive ?
1) There has been a serious improvement in car safety . People are surviving impacts at much higher speeds than a few decades ago . Side intrusion , crumple zones , air bags are all saving lives . Now I don't know what ratio of people at what speed are surviving compared to a few decades ago , but it must be higher .
2) The road toll has generally fallen some what over the last few decades , but is this due to drivers being safer or simply cars being safer to crash ? So if more people are surviving , does this = drivers being safer ?
3) With so many accidents going unreported , it may not be possible to get a true picture of how safe people actually are or not . One thing I do know is that hospital admissions are up to record highs . And this might be a far more accurate indicator for road safety than fatalities .
4) So why do Gooberments quote road fatalities when talking about road safety ? Maybe because fatalities are down ( due to car design ) and lower fatalities makes it look like the Gooberment is doing something , rather than sitting on their brains starving the grey matter off oxygen .
5) So is road safety just another BS illusion perpetrated by the Gooberment to make people feel safer when they are actually in more danger than ever before ?
1) There has been a serious improvement in car safety . People are surviving impacts at much higher speeds than a few decades ago . Side intrusion , crumple zones , air bags are all saving lives . Now I don't know what ratio of people at what speed are surviving compared to a few decades ago , but it must be higher .
2) The road toll has generally fallen some what over the last few decades , but is this due to drivers being safer or simply cars being safer to crash ? So if more people are surviving , does this = drivers being safer ?
3) With so many accidents going unreported , it may not be possible to get a true picture of how safe people actually are or not . One thing I do know is that hospital admissions are up to record highs . And this might be a far more accurate indicator for road safety than fatalities .
4) So why do Gooberments quote road fatalities when talking about road safety ? Maybe because fatalities are down ( due to car design ) and lower fatalities makes it look like the Gooberment is doing something , rather than sitting on their brains starving the grey matter off oxygen .
5) So is road safety just another BS illusion perpetrated by the Gooberment to make people feel safer when they are actually in more danger than ever before ?