travelnutz
I don't dispute any of that but with the average vehicle becoming heavier and heavier, it becomes less than a zero sum game and we become less safe, simply because the greater mass an object has, the more force it exerts at a given velocity. Anyone who has swung a hammer should know that.
Perhaps instead of thinking about how safe we are in our big trucks, we should be conscious of the fact that if we are in a collision with a smaller vehicle, regardless of who is at fault, the greatest amount of the resulting grief and carnage will be because of our vehicle, not the smaller one. Not only that but the greater weight of our vehicles makes them less able to avoid a collision. A feller named Newton said so over 300 years ago and things haven't changed.
So, instead of maintaining that heavy vehicles are safer, we should be asking ourselves, safer for who, because it is the large vehicle that has the most potential to do damage, cause injury and death.
