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  asktrade
  

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  04/15/2009 08:24 AM

  Is there a way to promote smaller vehicles without sacrificing safety?

  Is there a way to promote smaller vehicles without sacrificing safety?
  How about less talk about how to make urban streets safer for smaller vehicles and more talk on how to make urban streets safer for cyclist and pedestrians. Enough have been spent on trying to accommodate the automobile at the expense of the cleaner "safer" alternatives" Time for a paradigm shift. 

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  04/15/2009 11:11 AM

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  This topic hit all of the automotive blogs yesterday.  The issue will remedy itself in the coming years.  Supersizing, in all respects, is now dead due to financial, ecological, energy and social issues.  The Smarts and Hummers of the world will start to reconverge, size-wise and weight-wise, to what was more common on the automotive landscape of the late 80's and early 90's.  The disparity between large and small vehicles will start to disappear.  We (mostly) will be driving similar sized cars again, as it was during that stated time period. 

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  04/15/2009 02:05 PM

  safer small cars

  At last, a more honest test.
  
  I believe that my invention solves the problem of
  making cars lighter and safer.
  
  www.safersmallcars.com

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    04/30/2009 02:23 AM

    Re: safer small cars

    I know small cars are the trend nowadays, since they are more fuel efficient but this study has just proven that it is still safer to be driving a bigger car in case of crashes. That is why I drive an F150 as my zoomerdaily driver.

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  04/15/2009 06:53 PM

  We're missing the point

  i think we're all missing the biggest variable of them all, the human. we as drivers have to drive safer and less like jerks who try to run people off the road. and no matter how much safer they make the cars or the roads, the driver controls the destiny of that car/truck. technology is not the cure, thorough more in depth driver's education, raising the bar for drivers by making it harder to get a license, could and would work better.

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    05/27/2009 12:00 AM

    People will ALWAYS drive like jerks

    some of the time.
    
    That's why we need robodrivers.  certain freeways or lanes, could be designated robodrivers only.  no one without automatic drivers would be allowed in.  However wiring roads is stupid and impractical so the smarts will have to be in each vehicle, with perhaps entry points and computer communication gear to ensure only cars on 'autopilot' are allowed in. 
    
    Dual video cameras for stereo vision and other sensors hidden around the car would make this a shoe-in.  Plus you could go to sleep or read the paper (or TEXT!) once you'd told the car to drive you to work, home, the store, grandmas,, etc
    
    Robodrivers would be easy to certify, besides design and testing, they could pass driver tests with spoken commands to 'go around the block', 'parallel park', etc. 

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  04/16/2009 01:57 PM

  Bigger not always better

  What needs to be studied is the likelihood of having an accident in smaller, better stopping, more maneuverable vehicle with less overall frontal areas versus the resource-consuming lumber wagons that Detroit would have us all drive and the insurance industry would like us to be repairing.

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  05/06/2009 09:53 PM

  Propaganda

  This is just basic Cor-pirate propaganda.
  To keep the fat gas guzzling economy guzzling.
  They are only safe to cor-pirate profit models.
  Your burn more to fuel the taxes for government to squander is falling down on its self this thinking will only help keep more of the same.

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  05/08/2009 04:26 AM

  Forced To Loose

  Gas prices and availability will force most drivers into smaller cars. Rationing will ice the cake. If I'm driving a peanut when an eighteen wheeler pounces on me, I hope I can take a joke.

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