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A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. (slate.com)

submitted 8 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 113 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Tldr most guard rails are designed to stop vehicles under 5000lbs. Passenger vehicles are starting to exceed that, and EVs can weight 30% more than ICE vehicles.

[–] Dnn@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago (6 children)

How about keeping the guard rails as they are and let the fat car drivers carry the risk?

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Even US drivers are not quite heavy enough to make a significant difference here. This has to do with car battery weights.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

I don't think they are saying that the drivers are fat. Or at least it would be insane to say that society shouldn't care about the safety of fat people.

It's more likely that they said that the cars are fat which they are.

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