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SPG @ Mar 12th 2008 5:18PM
Please, by all means. Make vehicles safer.
Make the roof bars stronger.
However, as vehicles are so frikkin heavy now, use lighter materials.
Julius @ Mar 12th 2008 5:31PM
Problem is, lighter materials are also more expensive materials (high-strength steel, aluminum, carbon fiber).
And per the studies' own conclusions, "108 of these lives (95 percent confidence interval: 63-148) could have been saved by increasing the minimum SWR required by FMVSS 216 from 1.5 to 2.5. Increasing the minimum SWR to 3.16 could have saved 212 lives (95 percent confidence interval: 130-282)" [IIHS document r1098.pdf, page 11]. Now if we expanded this to the whole country, we'd still be talking about relatively small numbers... perhaps a thousand or so vs. the 43,000 that die a year in the US.
That number isn't small, but begs the question: how much do we spend to save a life?