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Insane overengineering of a car headlight
james_s:
Frankly I don't care about pedestrian safety. I'll stay off of the sidewalks, people should stay out of the road. If everyone just watched where they were going and paid attention this wouldn't be such an issue. The goal should be to not hit pedestrians, not to try to make cars less likely to injure them when they do hit.
PlainName:
--- Quote ---Frankly I don't care about pedestrian safety.
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Then why should anyone care about you or your car?
james_s:
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on March 30, 2022, 11:10:06 pm ---Then why should anyone care about you or your car?
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I can only assume that they don't. I pay attention when I drive though, I have never hit anything, I've only had people hit me. I would prefer cars to be getting lighter and smaller so as to cause less damage in collision but quite the opposite is true. I share the road mostly with huge heavy behemoths that cause massive damage in a collision. So I'm not sure what the point is here exactly. I've never put myself in a position where (my) pedestrian safety is an issue, I stay out of the street and look out for myself.
coppice:
--- Quote from: tom66 on March 30, 2022, 10:40:27 pm ---There's absolutely no way that a Volvo built in the 80's is safer than a car made today with respect to pedestrian safety.
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Now who would make a claim like that? This is the classic kind of bogus argument they teach you about in debating classes, and its the hallmark of a really slimy person.
An 80s Volvo was really good for pedestrian impacts. It was way ahead of its time, and most modern cars are not massively better. I suspect many of these tall flat fronted SUVs are probably worse. All cars tend to have a higher bonnet line than 30 years ago, and look more like rams than things that will scoop up a pedestrian. I'd like to see some serious data about that.
PlainName:
--- Quote ---I pay attention when I drive though, I have never hit anything, I've only had people hit me.
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No-one is perfect. In other fields you would be only too happy to take precautions just-in-case, and mostly because it's you that's at risk. It's a bit damning to effectively say it's someone elses tough shit if you ever make a mistake. Or they make a mistake and you made matters worse than they should have been.
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