<story><title>Heavier cars are safer for their drivers, but far deadlier for everyone else</title><url>https://academic.oup.com/restud/article-abstract/81/2/535/1517632</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>musha68k</author><text>They even had to change a decade old standard crash test to account for increase in weight and count of current style SUVs. IMO they should be banned as the creeping normality will lead to all of us sitting in battle mechs eventually:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.iihs.org&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;detail&amp;#x2F;small-suvs-struggle-in-new-tougher-side-test&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.iihs.org&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;detail&amp;#x2F;small-suvs-struggle-in-new-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;3Lu-t5dJrxI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;3Lu-t5dJrxI&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lb1lf</author><text>-SUVs aside, do keep in mind EVs are quite heavy compared to their ICE counterparts, too. (On the upside, I guess they, being newer, involve more passive safety for whatever they run into).&lt;p&gt;For instance, my 20 year old Land Cruiser (Which I, perhaps engaging in a bit of semantic pedantry would call a 4x4, not a SUV) has a dry weight of pretty much 2 tons &amp;#x2F; 4,500lbs.&lt;p&gt;A Nissan Leaf? 1,600kg&amp;#x2F;3,500lbs. (Tiny compared to the LC)&lt;p&gt;Tesla Model S? 1,950-2,300kg &amp;#x2F; 4,300-5,000lbs (Still small compared to the LC)</text></comment>
<story><title>Heavier cars are safer for their drivers, but far deadlier for everyone else</title><url>https://academic.oup.com/restud/article-abstract/81/2/535/1517632</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>musha68k</author><text>They even had to change a decade old standard crash test to account for increase in weight and count of current style SUVs. IMO they should be banned as the creeping normality will lead to all of us sitting in battle mechs eventually:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.iihs.org&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;detail&amp;#x2F;small-suvs-struggle-in-new-tougher-side-test&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.iihs.org&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;detail&amp;#x2F;small-suvs-struggle-in-new-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;3Lu-t5dJrxI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;3Lu-t5dJrxI&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mike_d</author><text>&amp;gt; creeping normality will lead to all of us sitting in battle mechs eventually&lt;p&gt;You say that like it is a bad thing? The future sounds awesome!</text></comment>