On Thu, 1 May 2003 09:50 am, Hakan Falk wrote: > Dear John, > > I think we can discuss which type of statistics that is > the right one and the truth is that it is no single one that > give a complete picture.
Do we all agree that it is too high a figure? aside: about 2 years ago there was a beatup media story here about airbags killing dogs and children and it being safer not to install them. Turns out the story was taken direct from the US news feeds without references to the differences in driving behaviour between the US and Australia. Now, I don't know this for sure, but I get teh impression that seatbelts are fairly much regarded as optional in the US, where as in Australia they have been compulsory for so long it is habitual. I was told the reason for the high incident of airbag deaths was because in the US (with low seat belt use) they were the _primary_ restraint mechanism (trigger threshold set at ~10 kph) where as in Oz they are definitely the secondary restraint (trigger threshold set at ~30 kph - I.e. will not deploy if the car is going less than 30 kph). Like I said I do not know if this is the whole truth, but there you go... I for instance can see problems if you are a stationary vehicle being impacted.... *shrug* -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 "And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made." Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/cjB9SD/od7FAA/uetFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
