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To: Lane3 who wrote (19740)	5/27/2006 11:41:05 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) of 542688

I don't think we can know the economics on this for sure- because as more and more people drive smaller cars, the environmental savings go up, as does the safety. It's only when we have a large disparity between large and small vehicles that the small vehicles are at such a great disadvantage in crashes. As far as the safety data, it's hard to screen out the fact that different drivers gravitate to different size classes. The youngest drivers tend to drive small trucks and small vehicles- because they are cheap, and I've read that this distorts the safety data, in terms of crash deaths. So I'm not sure we can get a good handle on this. The most important elements for car safety tend to be good driving habits and good safety equipment. If you can find anything on this that weighs it all out, I'd be pleased to read it. But for now I'll simply continue to try to reduce my footprint- drive very little, and use a small car (and drive very safely). That's the best I can do right now. The longer we stretch out the resources the better for my children, so a few years could mean something to them.

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