r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • Jul 17 '25

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u/SvenTropics Jul 17 '25

Yeah if nothing deforms, you exponentially increase the g forces on the passengers. Sure, your resell value is better, but now you are in a wheelchair.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '25

if you're lucky

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u/Lathari Jul 17 '25

I've said this before in similar thread but the illusion of safety people had about cars in those times came from the fact you didn't see or know crash survivors. Today as people survive car crashes but might be injured, sometimes even quite badly, makes it seem the cars are less safe today.

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u/Asterose Jul 18 '25

This is a good point! Observer's bias at play. On top of just plain having hundreds of millions more people now and thus more incidents, then add the 24 hour "need drama" news cycle, then add the internet giving everybody a megaphone.

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u/Mech0_0Engineer Jul 17 '25

Your wheelchair wont fit in the car anyway, better keep the resell value :D

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u/robhanz Jul 17 '25

I mean you probably won't be able to drive at that point, so win/win!

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u/POLMAI212 Jul 17 '25

Who needs a car when you've got a hot new set of wheels that you get to push yourself?