Mike Hunter wrote:
> You can choose to believe whatever you wish, you are entitled to you own
> opinion, I'm not going to debate someones opinion. I am a retired
> automotive engineer, with a degree is metallurgy. The facts concerning
> crash dynamics I posted where not an opinion, they are based on my
> experience in automobile crash dynamics gained during my thirty years as an
> automotive design engineer involved with body structure. I helped design
> those crumple zones and SRS systems. The larger the vehicle the more
> efficiently they do the job for which they are designed, that is to reduce
> the terminal speed at which ones organs strike one skeleton, referred to as
> the 'third collision.' The second being when ones body strikes their belt
> and SRS system restraints. One can not defy the laws of physics. In nine
> out of ten collisions the larger the vehicle the less likely proper belted
> passengers will be injured or killed, period. Those that hate SUVs and do
> not want others to drive them like to distort the facts about accidents to
> favor their cause.

since you bring up the subject of distortion;
http://www.bridger.us/2002/12/16/Cra...operVsFordF150

didn't work for ford did you?

> I don't own an SUV, I drive only larger RWD vehicles.
> From what I know I will never ride in a small FWD car just to save a few
> hundred dollar a year on fuel.
>
> mike
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> "flobert" > wrote in message
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>>On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:26:06 -0400, "Mike Hunter"
> wrote:
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>>>You better do a bit more research, if that is what you believe, because
>>>your
>>>information is not based on facts. Only around 2% of ALL of the hundreds
>>>of
>>>thousand accidents in the US involve a rollover and the majority of
>>>rollovers are the result of striking, or being struck by something, not
>>>from
>>>instability.. The fast majority of ALL accidents are frontal collisions.
>>>The larger the vehicle the less likely properly belted passengers will be
>>>injured or killed. If a vehicles height actually made it more likely for
>>>it
>>>to rollover one should expect to see six wheel trucks rolled over on a
>>>daily
>>>basis.
>>>
>>>mike
>>
>>The safer cars are ones with an integrated safety system wih full energy
>>dissipation.
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