Silver Cars Safer?

[jefferson-mo]

Great if you're driving your Marauder in New Zealand:lol:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&ncid=571&e=5&u=/nm/20031219/hl_nm/health_cars_dc_1


Not so good for Black cars tho

[Dr Caleb]

"Increasing the proportion of silver cars could be an effective passive strategy to reduce the burden of injury from car crashes," Furness added.

Huh? Silver cars are involved in fewer accidents, so let's build more of them? So, if everyone drove silver cars, there would be no accidents? Where do they get these people.

Yea, and if you slide off the end of a cliff, don't look down because that will cause you to fall. A coyote taught me that. :lol:

[teamrope]

Forget color, I want to know how many people were involved in a seriouse accidents while singing kumbyah!
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:lol:

:cool4:

[SHERIFF]

Top worst drivers....

1- students
2- doctors
3- layers
4- architects
5- real estate agents

Best drivers.....

1- homemakers
2- politicians
3- pilots
4- firemen
5- farmers

Most speeding tickets....

1- students
2- military
3- manual laborers
4- politicians
5- architects

Least speeding tickets.....

1- teachers, professors
2- clerical, secreteries
3- cops
4- librarians
5- homemakers



Worst drivers: Teens, doctors, lawyers

Steer clear of architects, too. Insurance data reveals occupations with most tickets and accidents.

NEW YORK - It shouldn't surprise you that students get in more car wrecks than those in any other occupation. They're inexperienced and lack a healthy dose of fear. Lucky for them that a doctor is likely to be at the scene. Medical doctors rank second in accident rates.

According to data from Quality Planning Corporation, a San Francisco-based company that helps insurance companies rate driver risk, attorneys, architects and real estate agents round out the top five most crash-prone occupations.

"The numbers blow big holes in the conventional wisdom about which professions are accident prone or dangerous drivers," said Daniel Finnegan, president of QPC.

The QPC survey ranked 40 different occupations. The company looked at data collected by insurance companies on 1 million drivers. The data cover an 18-month period ending one year ago.

Fifteen percent of students listed in the data were involved in an accident. The figure for doctors was 11 percent. Just four percent of farmers, on the other hand were involved in an accident.

Long hours, especially for doctors in the training phase of their careers, may contribute to the higher accident rate for physicians, said a spokesperson for the American Medical Association. The AMA has not studied physician involvement in auto accidents.

"Fatigue could be a factor," offered the AMA spokesperson. Medical residents and fellows often put in eighty-hour work weeks.

Lots of cell phone use, a common factor among doctors, lawyers and real estate agents, may also contribute, said the spokesperson. "There's plenty of evidence that shows that cell phone use is a big contributor to accidents," he said

The company also looked at which occupations are most prone to speeding tickets. Again, students, nine percent of whom got a speeding ticket, top the list. Virtually tied for second place enlisted military personnel, manual laborers and politicians, all of whom got speeding tickets at a rate of about eight percent. Seven percent of architects got speeding tickets. Architects and students were the only professions to make the top five in both lists.

Politicians managed the unlikely feat of ranking in the top five in speeding violations while at the same time ranking in the bottom five in accidents. Only homemakers ranked in the bottom five in both accidents and speeding tickets.

Insurance companies do not generally base the premiums they charge on occupation, said Finnegan, because it's often difficult verify. Also, insurance companies have to provide justification for premiums to state regulators, he said, and that would require more data.

"In the end we're very, very bad at predicting who is going to have an accident," said Finnegan, "I can't predict, for any individual person, who's going to have an accident within the next year."

"Except for students," added Robert U'Ren, QPC's vice president for business development and underwriting. "They're a bad risk."

[RCSignals]

Originally posted by Dr Caleb
Huh? Silver cars are involved in fewer accidents, so let's build more of them? So, if everyone drove silver cars, there would be no accidents? Where do they get these people.

Yea, and if you slide off the end of a cliff, don't look down because that will cause you to fall. A coyote taught me that. :lol:

well it is New Zealand

The country with all the sheep that ships Tanned Sheep hides to China so jackets etc can be made, instead of making them themselves in NZ (which might actually employ some Kiwis, but same kind of logic)

[TripleTransAm]

Best drivers - homemakers...

I have an issue with this...

You folks should see the kind of driving that goes on in my neighborhood. Soccer moms in out-of-control minivans or SUVs. Or trophy-wives rushing their high-$$ Mercedes to get to their nail-polishing appointment on time.

I think (and this is only my uninformed opinion) that the issue is money. Those with higher salaries can afford to f-up. My GTA's driver's mirror got busted off by some young little snotty chick in her Dad's Pathfinder in 1993, and while I was busy having a heartattack over having my pride and joy injured in this fashion or what my insurance rates would end up being (no fault insurance here), all she could say was "call my daddy once he gets back in town".

Speeding around my area is rampant, because fines don't seem to increase with inflation. In 1993, a speeding ticket would have put a serious hurting on my budget, but I have to admit that now it would end up being nothing more than a minor setback. Hence the total disregard for traffic laws around here.

And the accidents are hilarious... road rage IN A RESIDENTIAL STREET ending with an SUV flipped on its roof. IN A RESIDENTIAL STREET!!!! An Audi something-or-other slamming into a street lamp at 80+ mph, in a 30 zone. Plenty more.

And with that rich family comes the bratty youngster with access to all of Dad's "toys". The oldest living member of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra was killed in my neighborhood when two youngsters started driving aggressively. One of them (17 years old) was driving a Navigator (!) and lost control in a corner, slamming (flattening) a bus shelter and... well, you figure out the rest (the elderly gentleman was waiting for the bus).

I'm going to make sure once my kid gets to driving age, that I just "happen" to have a pretty docile winter beater in the household, for him to borrow. I can't imagine what I would have done with 350hp when I was 20, much less younger!