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Today's cars are so heavy the guardrails on the road aren't going to stop them. They're rated to stop cars up to 5k lbs. while modern cars are

Posted by Krusty (aka Krustylu) Feb 7 '24, 04:56

exceeding that by wide margins.

https://slate.com/business/2024/02/car-safety-guardrails-bloat-electric-vehicles.html (slate.com)

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like my state actually purchases guardrails -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 7, 06:04 5
- Idaho's Dept of Transportation be like "if they die, they die" -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 7, 06:12 4
  - If you didn't see that cliff edge, that is on you. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 7, 06:15 3
    - Missouri thinks it takes away your freedom to plunge off a cliff so pulled them all out. -- nm - spamlet Feb 7, 06:34 2
      - Seriously? -- nm - Krusty Feb 7, 06:39 1
        
        No but says a lot that you couldn’t tell -- nm - spamlet Feb 7, 06:46
my mini is stoppable! why does everyone think they jneed an SUV? -- nm - loosilu Feb 7, 05:24
Bigger cars and EVs. Roads and parking garages are over engineered to same levels, but cars are going above that. - . Feb 7, 05:09
for EVs that is especially true. -- (edited) - tRuMaN Feb 7, 05:00

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