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This testing is actually performed thousands of times every day, and the results are available... 850

posted by  someone claiming to be Phil Punxsutawney on  Tue Apr 30 14:21 CST 2002 [RELATED]

....from the insurance industry (which gets to pay all the claims, after all) at....

http://www.hwysafety.org/default.htm

They publish both injury rates and occupant death rates by vehicle size and make/model.

Anyway, the people you are arguing with managed to stay awake during their physics classes. I'd pick the Ford Expedition over any Volvo automobile (not any Volvo truck) for a head-on crash.

"Crumple zones", 8 airbags or whatever, here is simply no PRACTICAL way to make a 2000 pound car as safe as a 4000 pound car, never mind a 6000 pound truck. That's basic physics. Sorry.

-Phil Punxsutawney





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