![]() 01/02/2018 at 23:32 • Filed to: Australia | ![]() | ![]() |
Love this guy - sure it’s an Aussie ratings system, but that might be better than U.S. ...
![]() 01/02/2018 at 23:59 |
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I think its perfectly all right that cars are receiving a better rating for crash prevention systems, but we need to remember that in the end all that tech can only prevent the crash, not handle it.
![]() 01/03/2018 at 00:02 |
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Ah, this guy. Yeah, I just discovered him a few months ago. I find him kind of grating (WWAAAAAAYY??), but he’s well-researched and can smell BS a mile away. I get a lot out of his videos.
![]() 01/03/2018 at 00:08 |
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Those are variables that, I imagine, are difficult to distill into one crash rating. If I’m a better driver than average without crash prevention, do I do better than another drive with the aides in place? It’s all variables.
![]() 01/03/2018 at 00:11 |
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I think that a car should receive three ratings
Crash avoidance
Crash response
Average safety
Lets say that the Stinger has a five star response but a 0 star avoidance, then it gets 2.5 (which rounds up to 3)
But if the stinger has a three star response but a 5 star avoidance, then the average should top where the response ends, thus it would be a three star car.
![]() 01/03/2018 at 00:57 |
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Why are anarcho-capitalists so concerned about the Stinger’s safety ratings?
![]() 01/03/2018 at 01:14 |
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Annoying is my middle name ... so I love the bastard.
![]() 01/03/2018 at 01:15 |
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Provides them with a good living?
![]() 01/03/2018 at 11:52 |
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So what you are saying is that crash safety is becoming worthless as unnecessary computer nannies drop you two whole stars instead of just one.
![]() 01/03/2018 at 18:38 |
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Perhaps the rating themselves are less useful, but I don’t know enough about this to do anything other than speculate. But I think Cadogan’s a good expert.
![]() 01/04/2018 at 13:18 |
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yea, less useful is a much more accurate term.
![]() 01/04/2018 at 17:05 |
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The other thing is, there are only so many ways they can crash a car. If you get t-boned or have an offset crash like in the tests, it should perform as advertised. On the other hand, a different sort of crash could turn out better, or perhaps much worse. Some days I’m glad I live in the city.
![]() 01/05/2018 at 12:40 |
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I don’t know. “crash avoidance” seems like it should be a completely separate test.