Comments on RISCARIO INSIDER: Small Cars: Is 'Safer Than Ever' Safe Enough for Y...

Yes i think small cars are safer than ever. As the...

2011-01-11T12:01:02.769-05:00

Yes i think small cars are safer than ever. As there is lot of traffic in which this small cars are very comfortable to drive which will help to drive safe.

I don't think we should blame size or type of ...

2010-12-16T04:29:39.307-05:00

I don't think we should blame size or type of car for accidents ..you are rite with your stats but they keep on changing each year ..drive safe then size of cars wont matter...

Small cars are not at all safe. No matter whose fa...

2010-11-12T05:16:11.891-05:00

Small cars are not at all safe. No matter whose fault is there but if small collides with big than small will suffer more.

It is really a good question that Is small cars sa...

2010-08-31T01:36:43.932-04:00

It is really a good question that Is small cars safer enough? My answer is no as now a days there are lots of accident taking place all aroud in that situation if small cars collides with big car than there no chance of small car to survive.

Thanks for sending me this link! I missed your dis...

2010-03-22T11:41:42.420-04:00

Thanks for sending me this link! I missed your discussion when posted. I'm very fond of small cars, always have been. But when the wheel few off that semi, I know that owning a mid-sized Subaru is what lessened our physical damage. The front of our car was smushed, leaving our bodies untouched.

Smaller, lighter cars for sale are generally less ...

2009-12-15T06:08:10.620-05:00

Smaller, lighter cars for sale are generally less safe than larger cars. Although there is still a lot you can do to choose the safest small car. Most of the serious accidents are in the other guy hands that are in generally the bigger car still you can't protect yourself against every danger and life is full of trade-offs. If you want to save oil and reduce emissions, but you also want to be safe. What do you do? You choose the safest car you can afford that also provides good gas mileage.

That's really sobering. I like to think the a...

2009-04-25T23:15:00.000-04:00

That's really sobering. I like to think the answer is not to have to choose between Safer Gus Guzzler or Walnet Shell Eco-Friendly, but that *all* cars will get smaller so the little guys don't have to get crunched by the SUVs.
@juan70ahr There are all kinds of ways to slice & dice stats to answer any given question. In this instance, the question (a good one, given the increasing trend towards smartcars) was: How do smart cars stand up to outdated gas guzzlers, when push comes to shove, so to speak?

What has happened to basic journalism and research...

2009-04-25T20:49:00.000-04:00

What has happened to basic journalism and research? If you were to go to the web sites for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (.org) or the US Dept of Transportation, you'd see that the actual highway data demonstrates pickup trucks are actually the most dangerous vehicles on the road. With a death rate of 93 or 12 points above a mini passenger car and 31 points above a midsize car.
http://www.iihs.org/research/fatality_facts_2007/occupants.html
Are SUV's safer? - Current data supports that. However, data from 1978 to 2004 shows that occupant deaths per million registered passenger vehicles 1-3 years old were either worse or equivalent between SUV's and passenger cars. What happens in a lab is one thing, what happens on the road is another. Dealing with sheer volume is incorrect stat handling. We need to compare how relatively new cars perform on the road (3 years or less) and death per those new cars on the road.
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