boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoA 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us.slate.comexternal-linkmessage-square235fedilinkarrow-up1456arrow-down143
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minus-squareDnn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down12·8 months agoHow about keeping the guard rails as they are and let the fat car drivers carry the risk?
minus-squareImgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·8 months agoEven US drivers are not quite heavy enough to make a significant difference here. This has to do with car battery weights.
minus-squarelud@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoI don’t think they are saying that the drivers are fat. Or at least it would be insane to say that society shouldn’t care about the safety of fat people. It’s more likely that they said that the cars are fat which they are.
minus-squarestarman@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·8 months agoFat car can hit an innocent skinny car on the other side of the road, in case of an accident.
minus-squareAkasazh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoThe problem is if they crash through the guard rail and kill or Injure others.
minus-squareafraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoYeah you say that now but when that article comes out about all those kids in a SUV dying you will be upset that the government cheapened out.
How about keeping the guard rails as they are and let the fat car drivers carry the risk?
Even US drivers are not quite heavy enough to make a significant difference here. This has to do with car battery weights.
I don’t think they are saying that the drivers are fat. Or at least it would be insane to say that society shouldn’t care about the safety of fat people.
It’s more likely that they said that the cars are fat which they are.
Fat car can hit an innocent skinny car on the other side of the road, in case of an accident.
The problem is if they crash through the guard rail and kill or Injure others.
Yeah you say that now but when that article comes out about all those kids in a SUV dying you will be upset that the government cheapened out.
What about trying to reduce deaths?