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Source of the chart - Plane vs. car safety: America has the world's safest air travel but is so bad at car safety - Vox

Three tweet thread...

A key reason is Americans love BIG HEAVY vehicles. "The average weight of a new vehicle sold in the United States last year was a whopping 4,329 pounds." You get hit by one of these monsters as a pedestrian, cyclist, you die.

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[-] Transform2942@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago

That's because it's a stock F150...

They go up F250, F350..up to at least F650 (and that's just Ford!)

Plus any yahoo can buy a lift kit off the internet and literally jack up the absurdity.

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