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<blockquote data-quote="BrownArmy" data-source="post: 756365" data-attributes="member: 18225"><p>How is that relevant?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So it's less safe to ride in (or drive) a passenger car than it is to ride in an old package car? Hold on a minute...</p><p></p><p>To a certain extent, I'll semi-agree with you. These 80's package cars don't start up at a light like passenger cars, don't stop like passenger cars, and certainly don't handle like passenger cars. In any day we're most often driving under thirty mph and any accidents that occur (avoidable or not) are likely to be low-speed events.</p><p></p><p>(<em>Side note: I live in Massachusetts in the greater Boston area. The drivers in this town are colloquially known as some of the worst drivers in the country, and it's half-true. However, driver accident fatality statistics in MA are actually quite low compared to most other states. Likely because there is so much traffic on our congested roadways that most accidents are low-speed fender-benders...</em>)</p><p></p><p>We're clearly not popping wheelies and doing burnouts in these package cars, and I'm often amazed at the moves people will pull in front of the GIGANTIC BROWN TRUCK I'm driving. It's just physics, this truck will cream your passenger car, easily, and the package car more often than not will be in service the next day.</p><p></p><p>But in a passenger car, there are likely front and side air bags, brakes that will do something meaningful in a panic-stop, safety glass all around, three point seat-belts, etc. etc.</p><p></p><p>A UPS driver in Maine was killed this year waiting to make a left turn at a four-way intersection into oncoming traffic. Someone driving a <strong>passenger car</strong> hit him so hard from behind that he was pushed into the opposing traffic and lost his life.</p><p></p><p>If that had happened to someone in a <strong>passenger car</strong>, they would have lived to tell the tale.</p><p></p><p>Of course not riding in a vehicle <em>at all</em> is safer than riding in a vehicle, DUH. How is that random fact relevant to UPS drivers who drive eight or nine or ten hours a day on the road? Are you the guy that said the windshields in package cars pop out real easy so don't worry if you slam your head against them?</p><p></p><p>(If you aren't that guy, I'll apologize in advance...)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrownArmy, post: 756365, member: 18225"] How is that relevant? So it's less safe to ride in (or drive) a passenger car than it is to ride in an old package car? Hold on a minute... To a certain extent, I'll semi-agree with you. These 80's package cars don't start up at a light like passenger cars, don't stop like passenger cars, and certainly don't handle like passenger cars. In any day we're most often driving under thirty mph and any accidents that occur (avoidable or not) are likely to be low-speed events. ([I]Side note: I live in Massachusetts in the greater Boston area. The drivers in this town are colloquially known as some of the worst drivers in the country, and it's half-true. However, driver accident fatality statistics in MA are actually quite low compared to most other states. Likely because there is so much traffic on our congested roadways that most accidents are low-speed fender-benders...[/I]) We're clearly not popping wheelies and doing burnouts in these package cars, and I'm often amazed at the moves people will pull in front of the GIGANTIC BROWN TRUCK I'm driving. It's just physics, this truck will cream your passenger car, easily, and the package car more often than not will be in service the next day. But in a passenger car, there are likely front and side air bags, brakes that will do something meaningful in a panic-stop, safety glass all around, three point seat-belts, etc. etc. A UPS driver in Maine was killed this year waiting to make a left turn at a four-way intersection into oncoming traffic. Someone driving a [B]passenger car[/B] hit him so hard from behind that he was pushed into the opposing traffic and lost his life. If that had happened to someone in a [B]passenger car[/B], they would have lived to tell the tale. Of course not riding in a vehicle [I]at all[/I] is safer than riding in a vehicle, DUH. How is that random fact relevant to UPS drivers who drive eight or nine or ten hours a day on the road? Are you the guy that said the windshields in package cars pop out real easy so don't worry if you slam your head against them? (If you aren't that guy, I'll apologize in advance...) [/QUOTE]
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